“I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence,” the Pope told journalists during the July 31 papal flight to Rome following his apostolic journey to Poland. “This is not right and it is not true.” “I don’t like to speak about Islamic violence,” the Pope said, taking into account that one sees violence every day in the newspapers, even at the hands of baptized Catholics. “There are violent Catholics!” he said. “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.” –Source
Finally, this Jesuit ordained Pope admits that he doesn’t see the violence of Islam as being an issue. And he even goes so far as to use his own flock as a way to belittle or downplay the violence of Islam. Of course, he’s doing so in a way that suggests violent Catholics are only those we see in bar room brawls. He won’t mention the Roman Catholics killing people in Mexico that refuse to convert, or even the burning of the dead bodies of their victims that refuse to bow to the Pope. He doesn’t mention the 1260 years wherein the Catholic church and all civil leaders that were Roman Catholic killed hundreds of millions of Christians and he certainly isn’t going to declare Catholics violent as his priests continue to violently rape little boys. Nor will he mention any of the violent acts done by his predecessors. The list of Vatican violence is so far off the chart just naming a few as I just did won’t even amount as a pimple on mountain of evidence compiled exposing them. Continue reading
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