Let’s thank God that an official with the world-standing of the Pope has forthrightly condemned Islamic jihad. In addition, the Pope stated the philosophical case against atheistic materialism in the physical sciences.
Too many people, for too long, have been tip-toeing around the obvious, seeking to emulate the “sensitivity” of Senator John Kerry’s foreign policy: while these people are killing us, we mustn’t annoy them.
A New York Times article dated September 13, 2006, is an example of liberals being more concerned about hurting Muslims’ feelings than about addressing what is obvious to anyone with the common sense God gave a billy-goat.
Times reporter Ian Fisher writes: “[the Pope’s speech] distilled many of Benedict’s longstanding concerns, about the crisis of faith among Christians and about Islam and its relationship to violence.
“And he used language open to interpretations that could inflame Muslims, at a time of high tension among religions and three months before he makes a trip to Turkey.”
To most observers not blinded by liberalism it is bloodily apparent that Muslims have been inflamed and bent upon conquering or destroying the non-Muslim world for more than a decade. No official in this country uttered anything “inflammatory” to trigger the events of 9/11. For followers of the Koran, it is sufficient provocation that the United States exists as a non-Muslim nation.
The Voice of America website offers a less propagandized account of Pope Benedict’s speech, observing:
“In a theological address to academics at Regensburg University, the pope spoke of the relationship between faith and reason and Islam’s holy war, Jihad. Historically, he said, spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable and therefore, ungodly.
“The pope said violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. God is not pleased by blood, he added, and not acting reasonably is contrary to God’s nature.
“The pope said reason and faith must come together in a new way in order to achieve that genuine dialogue of cultures and religions that is so urgently needed today.”
With regard to atheistic materialism in the physical sciences:
“Benedict also restated his position that science could not provide an explanation of the origins of the world that would exclude God’s role. He dismissed the notion that man and reason could be nothing more than a chance result of evolution.
“Speaking of the relationship between science and religion, the pope said that since the enlightenment in the 18th century, some sectors of the scientific world had tried to seek “an explanation of the world in which God would be unnecessary.” But he said, “When God is subtracted, something does not add up for man, the world, the whole vast universe.”
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