Ed: continued from Part I published here yesterday.
An Anglican church in southern England held a joint birthday celebration for Jesus and Mohammad which ended with an Islamic prayer. In Southern Italy, a parish priest actually produced a Muslim crèche, starring Mary in a burka and Joseph as a North African Muslim while another Italian priest eliminated the Christmas nativity scene outside his church ‘because it could offend Muslims’, and Islamic songs accompanied Christian ones in Florence’s Cathedral.
But possibly the most worrying of the Christmas services was that held in an Episcopal Church in Scotland because this included a reciting in Arabic of verses from the Koran which denied the deity of Christ which is of course, the whole point of the New Testament of the Bible.
And it was at this point that it dawned on me in this handshake of friendship there was one hand taking and the other giving. The Christians were giving in and the Muslims were taking it for granted. As far as I could find, no mosques were hosting Christian priests or combined faith services and no fully Muslim countries, such as Saudi Arabia or Iran, were accepting ‘Chrislam.’
So why are most Christian denominations — including the Catholic Pope of Rome himself — agreeing to Chrislam and even insisting upon it?
Pope Francis was elected in March 2013 and since then his main aims seem to have been firstly to mollify Christian opinion of all Muslims and secondly the early creation of a One World Religion.
Friendship and even the merging with Islam is obviously important to the Pope as he has said or intimated several times during his reign that Islam is a religion of Peace and that terrorist attacks are only made by ‘extremists’. Strangely, for a Christian, he equates this violence with the Bible instruction to preach Christianity in all lands. But it seems that Pope Francis has not read the various verses of the Koran which command Muslims not to make friends with ‘Disbelievers’ or ‘Idolaters’ and that any alliances with them can be broken. Nor does he seem to have heard about ‘Taqyyia’, the permission given to Muslims by Allah to lie if it is to the benefit of Islam.
Whether this idea was suggested by Pope Francis or not, Chrislam was given another boost in June 2014 (this time involving not only Islam but also Judaism) when a crowd-funded Temple was planned to be built in Berlin, Germany, with a church, a mosque and a synagogue all under one roof, where Muslims, Jews and Christians could worship together. This is to be called ‘The House of One’.
As to his drive for a One World Religion, this has been going on since his election. It began in November 2014, when Pope Francis hosted a global ecumenical conference at the Vatican, sponsored partly by the Pontifical Council for Inter-religions Dialogue with more than 30 speakers from Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, Jaina, Shasana, Taoist and Sikh religions as well as Roman Catholics and Professing Christians. And by November 2017 the Pope had completed the nineteenth foreign trip of his papacy, this time to Myanmar and Bangladesh, the common thread of all these trips being to push the Catholic Church towards interfaith dialogue, especially with Muslims.
Now, the idea of a One World Religion, no more religious wars, no more ‘phobias, all worshipping the same God, living in peace, does sound, well, civilized — just what Pope Francis has set out to achieve.
But once again, there is a problem and it’s this: who’s going to be the boss?
At the moment, there are two main religions: Christianity and Islam. And currently, both religions have approximately two billion members — with Jews, Hindus and Buddhist membership counted in the millions. However, in Europe, the religion’s heartland, the numbers of Christians are now falling rapidly, with 30 churches closing a year in Britain and a higher number expected over the coming years. But the Muslim congregations are rising just as rapidly as the Christian ones are falling, due largely to fertility rates and to the increase of migrants into Europe. This increase in immigration is very much approved of by Pope Francis — after all, his family were immigrants into Argentina back in the 1920s — but it could well ruin his hopes for an equal Chrislam, if not for a One World Religion.
In any group there is a Leader, one who can inspire respect and even fear. But that is not the Christian religion, especially at the moment when it is cringing and jettisoning its beliefs for fear of ‘offending’, bowing to one which will never bow back.
If there ever is a One World Religion (to go with the One World Government which Pope Francis also seems to favour), it will be Islam.
“An even more embarrassing possibility for Church authorities is the prospect that a notable cathedral could be bought by followers of another faith.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5923169/Church-England-forced-sell-cathedrals-cover-debts.html So what? Is it not even more embarrassing that the C of E has made itself irrelevant in the battle against Islam? Thousands of Nigerian Christians have been murdered so far this year by Muslims. Has Welby ever pointed to the root cause? Namely the commands in the Koran to kill non-Muslims, and the example of Mohammed who did exactly that. How many C of E schools serve Halal? Probably most of them by now. And… Read more »
Left to the acidic Welby, St Paul’s and Westminster Abbey would be flogged to the Saudis, and the money recycled to pay for courses (for clergy and laity) on:
– gender fluidity awareness training
– how the Resurrection isn’t to be taken literally
– how Matt. 24:4-5,24 specifically excludes Mohammed (PBUH) from the prohibition on false prophets to follow Jesus
– how to smoothly transition to an Islamic state
and similar noble causes.
All with a nod and a wink from the incoming Defender-of-the-Faith in waiting (Charles III).
Chrislam an absolutely cretinous notion; put a ravening lion in with a meek lamb and what happens? Trust Dope Francis and other dimwit clergy to advocate it. Incidentally I have a short but very meaty book of 3 essays by by Iris Murdoch, “The Sovereignty of Good.” (She was a philosopher as well as novel writer). To try to put it in a nutshell, this examines what she regards as the shortcomings of modern philosophy which has lost all sense of the transcendent. Relevant because if we no longer accept Christian dogma we need a workable philosophy to replace it.
> put a ravening lion in with a meek lamb and what happens?
Isaiah 11:6 contains what is often erroneously rendered as the lion will lie down with the lamb:
“The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them.” (Douay-Rheims)
So Franciscus is merely living in hope of a promised paradise.
Unencumbered by such beliefs, were I to be approached by a lion I would immediately seek the use of a tree or a gun.
We could also be talking Revelation 5:5-6
“5 And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
6 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.”
No, that’s not it. Not that I pretend to comprehend the “deep” symbolism in Revelation (and Daniel). Were I unkind, I might say these books serve as examples of what noxious weeds can do to the human brain.
Any sensible lion, symbolic or otherwise, confronted with a standing though slain lamb with seven horns and eyes, would turn tail and flee.
My elderly uncle is a retired vicar. He read the Koran many years ago, and describes it as “seriously bad news”. He would never hold inter-faith services. Because he knows the reality of Islam. Many “trendy vicars” don’t, according to him. He and I have had long conversations regarding Islam, and the stupidity of clergy and politicians. The problem is that wherever a Muslim prays, that place is then consecrated to Allah. Which includes churches and cathedrals. The soft-in-the-head bishops who allow anti-Christ chanting of the Koranic verses within their buildings clearly do not understand this point. What exactly do… Read more »
Quoted alarmingly often by apologists is Qur’an 5:32, which they claim says “whoever kills a soul … it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely”. Pretty uplifting. Until you read the whole of that verse, and the one immediately following it: “Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as… Read more »
Freddy, indeed. Following the murder of Lee Rigby, Nick Clegg partially quoted this passage. Of course omitting the “unless…” part. “corruption in the land” could well be interpreted as applying to the acts of our armed forces in Islamic countries such as Afghanistan. Hence the very verses which Clegg quoted could arguably justify the killing of Lee Rigby, for those who take the Koran literally. The entire speech had been on Youtube. I can only now find a cut down version. I suspect that someone must have pointed out to Clegg what a fool his Islam advisers made of him.
> who’s going to be boss [tomorrow]? Easy! It is those who one dare not criticise today, for fear that an idiot constabulary, complicit prosecution service and contemptible judiciary will rain misfortune upon one’s head for the “crime” of calling a spade a spade. — Religions which reserve to god (and, therefore, not to man) the right to punish me for failing to buy into fairy tales are safe from attack by me and by hundreds of millions who think like me. Most religions today which count their adherents in the hundreds of millions – and there’s only one really… Read more »
Here’s something interesting to ponder over: because the Islamic holy month of Ramadan falls earlier every year due to it following the lunar calendar, rather than the solar calendar, in the year 2030 there will actually be two Ramadans.
January 6th 2030 to February 4th 2030. And then again from December 26th 2030 to January 24th 2031.
In 2031, 2032 and 2033, Christmas Day will occur during Ramadan. By which time, I wonder which religious occasion will have greater precedence in this country.
Curious also that the UN Agenda 2030 also references that year… is this all part of the plan I wonder?
Stuart, contrary to mainstream media and Prince Charles, Ramadan is not in fact a holy month. Just because the MSM keep telling us something does not necessarily mean that it is true.
Koran 9:5 tells Muslims to attack “when the sacred months are over”. Jihad attacks are perfectly permissible during Ramadan, since it is not sacred.
https://www.ukipdaily.com/pattern-jihad-attacks/
“Prince Charles tried to halt Afghan invasion to “honor Ramadan””
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/03/prince-charles-tried-to-halt-afghan-invasion-to-honor-ramadan
> “Prince Charles tried to halt Afghan invasion to ‘honor Ramadan’”
Mr Tampon talking to plants may be cool. Him hearing them reply to him is… troubling.
I suspect Imam Charles, who has evidently not read the Qur’an at all, thirsts for the chance to unify the two major Abrahamic faiths in Britain.
The monarchy skipping him seems increasingly attractive.
You are mistaken. Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar
Sorry, I’m not clear which bit is wrong – for example, http://www.ichild.co.uk/p/when-is-ramadan-2013-2014-2015-2016-2017-2018-2019-2020-2021-2022 confirms 2 Ramadans in 2030…
Before my comment is misconstrued – the four holy months of Islam are Rajab (the first spring), Dhu al-Qa‘dah (the time of truce), Dhu al-Ḥijjah (the time for the Hajj and Eid) and Muḥarram (fighting forbidden). StuartJ’s error that I referred to is that Ramadan is not a holy month (Hugo’s correction of the same error may have been in the moderation queue when I posted mine), and the enormous significance of this is, scripture permitting, it is perfectly legitimate for true believers to slaughter infidel/kaffir wherever ye may find them (per Qur’an 2:191, 4:89, 9:5) during Ramadan and the… Read more »
So worrying; and evidence if any more were needed of the collectivist intentions of highly elitist Saudi-financed Wahhabist expansionism that has a clear “pecking order” in terms of status and privilege. I know of (more enlightened) muslims from Turkey, Algeria, Kosovo and Kazakhstan who deplore this takeover, branding it as racist and even barbaric. And there is ample evidence that it is those things; I remember from working (on training courses delivered to the Saudis) in the very caste-ridden Sharia environment, that what matters is what the trusted moslem says, the word of anyone else is essentially non-existent and at… Read more »
Ipz I agree with you entirely.
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There has been a Christian church inside the mosque in Cordoba for centuries
The Magdalen laundries, the theft of illegitimate babies, the attempted electric shock “treatments” for homosexuality, and the refusal to allow women beaten up by their husbands a divorce, all practised by the Catholic Church, were enough to convince me that Popes (and in fact all clergy of any denomination) are very dangerous self-serving people, and how anyone can revere them is beyond me.
None of these evils were taught by Jesus Christ. To know a religion you must look at the life of its founder. Then determine who is following the founder by imitation. Some very good people imitate Christ.
Some very bad people imitate Mohammad.
While I have grave doubts that a historical Jesus existed, what good person could argue with: … do to others what you would have them do to you I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. As an… Read more »
Clearly they do not appreciate Jesus was around way before Mohammed so Mary would not have been wearing a bin bag., but the the Jewish god adopted by the Christians and Muslims is as likely as a multicoloured unicorn.
All religious shite should be banned under penalty of death!!!
Arthur, please don’t beat around the bush. Tell us what you really think.
Holy crap! Doesn’t he realise the death penalty for crimes stems from Leviticus, therefore if he advocates it, he would have to start by killing himself? 🤣
Frightening…
I have long regarded the various popes as idiots at best and the enemy within at worst. Your article confirms the latter. Thank you for clearing that up.
The monarchs temporal and spiritual of yesteryear were happy to see heretics burned – can anybody who has read the Gospels imagine that Christ would have condoned such action? Monarchs and Popes alike are self-appointed or appointed by the elite – the people are then expected to acclaim them. No surprise that the ranks of heretics included those who upset their lords by translating the good book into the native languages of the people. Suddenly they could read it themselves and not rely on their lords and masters to tell them what is good for them – the world was… Read more »
Don’t forget that Jesus Christ is the son of God. He is God incarnate. He died for mankind and rose again from the dead.
Muhammad is mere mortal who murdered and raped and did all kinds of violence. He was a false prophet. He did not go around doing good. He only waged war to extend his evil Mafia like empire.
The Catholic faith is the true faith. The Pope is very much thought to be a heretic and a traitor.
That’ll do for now.
Oh dear. Given the profound misconduct – judging either by the standards of today or the standards prevalent at the time – of so many of the (~265) predecessors of Franciscus, for example the Borgia Popes (and close family members) who were notorious for many crimes and perversions, including murder including fratricide, rape, torture, poisoning, pimping, fraud, extortion, blackmail, bribery, other corruption, simony, incest, warmongering, industrial-scale whoring and perhaps even infanticide, bestiality and “witchcraft”, I can’t help but think of the plain meaning of Matt. 7:16-20 about rotten trees producing rotten fruit. Then there’s the de Riminis and the Sforza… Read more »
de Riminis? Brainfart. Meant the Medicis.
> can anybody who has read the Gospels imagine that Christ would have condoned such action?
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”