Tell it on mountains.
Archbishop Chaput tells it like it is.
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Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver is something of a hero, not merely for orthodox Catholics, but for any orthodox Christian who longs for firm and faithful leadership from men in positions of honor and authority in the church. He has been among the more prominent of big-city bishops to take a strong line on abortion, insisting that politicians who claim Catholicism has the tradition to which they are obedient show some actual obedience to the infallible teachings of the Church. His archdiocese has been vibrant and largely free of the sort of terrible scandals that have wracked other dioceses. And now he gives us a measured but resolute statement calling Denver Catholics to remember their history vis-à-vis Islam.
Islam has embraced armed military expansion for religious purposes since its earliest decades. In contrast, Christianity struggled in its divided attitudes toward military force and state power for its first 300 years. No “theology of Crusade” existed in Western Christian thought until the 11th century. In fact, the Christian Byzantine Empire had already been resisting Muslim expansion in the East for 400 years before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade — as a defensive response to generations of armed jihad.
Much of the modern Middle East was once heavily Christian. Muslim armies changed that by imposing Islamic rule. Surviving Christian communities have endured centuries of marginalization, discrimination, violence, slavery and outright persecution — not always and not everywhere; but as a constant, recurring and central theme of Muslim domination.
That same Christian suffering continues down to the present. In the early years of the 20th century, the Muslim Ottoman Empire murdered more than 1 million Armenian Christians for ethnic, economic, but also religious reasons. Many Turks and other Muslims continue to deny that massive crime even today. Coptic Christians in Egypt — who, even after 13 centuries of Muslim prejudice and harassment, cling to the faith — continue to experience systematic discrimination and violence at the hands of Islamic militants.
Amen, Archbishop.
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AGAIN...until there can be found Islamic clerics that speak for the "peace" side, and take it upon themselves to rid their "religion of peace" of the cancer that grows in its belly, we will continue to dance around the basic truth that we face an equivalent "modern-day" crusade that puts the world at odds with the faith.
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was one of the Armenians stabbed and sent into the desert to die. For a long, long time the Turks would beat the heck out of any Armenian that even raised their eyes to Mt. Ararat, which is now in Turkey after the invasion/genocide that leaves Armenia at less than one quarter it's size before the genocide. Even today there are many people my age and a few years older that have a bitter hatred of anyone who is Turkish; the odd thing is that it seems more people of my age and grandparents' age harbor more hatred than people of my parents' age. Just seems like an odd jump, to me. But it is also mostly the very traditional Armenian families that harbor the resentment.
The biggest thing about Mt. Ararat though is that it's where it's believed Noah's Ark landed, although I'm not sure how widely accepted that is outside of the Armenian Apostolic Church. I saw it on the History channel about 6 or 7 years ago that they have satellite images that hint at the remnants of the Ark, but aren't sure yet.
^^I wrote that.
You said; "Mt. Ararat though is that it's where it's believed Noah's Ark landed, although I'm not sure how widely accepted that is outside of the Armenian Apostolic Church."
um...its in the Bible so all Christians believe that.
on Islam in college right after 9/11 happened (yes, that ought to tell you how old/young I am...). I think I'll post the transcript as a diary, so check it out. We have been repeatedly lied to about the nature of Islam as a "religion of peace" - and the way to win the war on terror is not just to bring freedom to people, but to destroy the worldview that Islam causes in many of its followers. (And please note that said "many," not "all".)
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