Monday, June 20, 2016

Vatican Ramadan Letter Praises Mecca Pilgrimage, Says Christians and Muslims Should Unite to End Unemployment, Wishes "Happy Feast!"

The full text is at the bottom.

But first, let me make a serious comment. The Vatican letter claims:
We know that Christianity and Islam both believe in a merciful God, who shows his mercy and compassion towards all his creatures...
It is true that the Koran - which Muslims believe was literally dictated by Allah - mentions the words "mercy" or "merciful" many times. Indeed, I would wager that it mentions them far more frequently than, say, the Old or New Testaments. Here is a typical line:
Then after that you turned back; and had it not been for the grace of Allah and His mercy on you, you had certainly been among the losers (2:64). 
That's from the second chapter or surah of the Koran - commonly called "The Cow." On one translation, there are ten other uses of "mercy" or "merciful" in "The Cow," alone. I've always liked the above verse, by the way, because it mixes the antique - "you had certainly been" - with the modern - "losers."

But if you actually read the Koran from beginning to end, it is impossible to come away from it without thinking that the mercy thing is merely a sort of ongoing deadpan bait and switch.

The basic format goes something like this:
  1. Allah is all merciful.
  2. And he will disembowel the unbelievers and fry them in Hell forever. 
I'm not kidding. Read, say, the twenty-first surah - "The Prophets" - where "mercy" appears five times, ending with
And We have not sent thee but as a mercy to the nations...My Lord, judge Thou with truth. And our Lord is the Beneficent...(21:107, 112).
And then continue on to surah twenty-two, innocently called "The Pilgrimage":
And for them are hooked rods of iron. 
...Taste the doom of burning (22:19-22).
That's Allah talking, by the way. And you could multiply that sort of thing by about infinity.

Claiming that Muslims worship a merciful god is pretty dim.

We might sum up the modern Christian-Muslim dialogue this way:
Happy Feast! 
Allah will melt your skin!
Here's the text of that letter:
Christians and Muslims: 
Beneficiaries and Instruments of Divine Mercy 
Dear Muslim brothers and sisters, 
Happy Feast to you all! 
From the Vatican, 10 June 2016 
Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran 
Bishop Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.I. 


  1. Nope, not one word spoken about Jesus Christ. It appears Muslims have evangelized Catholcs well.

  2. Why should they be evangelized? The catechism of the vat 2 church clearly states that Muslims worship the same God and therefore have salvation. Apparently they have some sort of covenanty kinda thingy with God like the Jews do. Jesus is therefore irrelevant. Allah be praised.

    Seattle kim

  3. Totally repugnant. Totally vile.

    That Rome is officially endorsing that Muslims' transgressions are forgiven by a trip to Mecca is mind-blowing. Jesus is the forgiver of sins, via the priest, in the confessional.

    And why don't those cowardly worms, those spinmeisters in Rome, mention mercy toward Muslim women who in childhood or puberty undergo FGM?

  4. Religious indifferentism is the hallmark of Vatican 2. Why is anyone so shocked by this? Paul vi wore a Jewish ephod on his chest. Both Benedict and JP2 had their Asissi celebrations. JP2 took it one step further by kissing the Koran and saying "May John the Baptist protect Islam."

    This Mother Teresa quote sums it up:

    "Of course I convert. I convert you to be a better Hindu or a better Muslim or a better Protestant. Once you've found God, it's up to you to decide how to worship him" ("Mother Teresa Touched Other Faiths," Associated Press, 9/7/97)

  5. sorry forgot to I.d myself in above post--Seattle Kim

    Who can deny what's in the video below?

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    1. I think we were just spammed by Cardinal Tauron.

  7. Who the h is that?

    Seattle kim

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    1. See. If you give these Muslim greeting card salespeople an inch, they take a mile.

  9. Happy Ramadan, y'all!

    Seattle kim