As Vatican Seeks Muslim Souls, Europe Fears U.S. Abandonment: La Stampa of Italy
Jun 15th, 2009 | 3 responses
Has President Obama’s Cairo speech exposed a deep-seated European fear of ‘Islamization?’ This article from the country that houses the Vatican in part blames the Catholic Church for the phenomena.
For Italy’s La Stampa, Guido Ceronetti chastises his European brethren for being too lily-livered to support a stronger European defense and stand up to oppose those they fear – and delivers an incredible broadside against the Catholic Church, for preferring religious Muslim souls over secular European ones.
Ceronetti writes in part:
Obama’s Islamic triumph has triggered a class of reflexive reaction that is beyond Europe’s media – which is one of fear. … That fear, the secret resentfulness being felt after the generous, noble and non-generic speech in Cairo – is of being abandoned by America in the face of the relentless advancement of European Islamization. And this Islamization is taking place with the active collaboration of the Catholic Church (for bioethical reasons, due to the rise of secularism, and because of the unspoken and desperate project involving a future monotheist partition of human souls in the Vatican cave).
[Editor's Note: According to Wikipedia, judging the weighing of souls after death is an image of Christian theology and of some other religious traditions, according to which, the weighing of souls - the division of the blessed and the damned - is supposed to take place at the "end times." The author implies that the Vatican prefers monotheist Muslim souls to those of secular Europe].
Out of the time of the last two Popes has comes an awareness that Islam is winning. There are variations on this pessimistic certainty, but the political determination seems to be marked by a will to “salvage what one can.” It’s the tragic choice of Pius XII all over again: better Hitler than Stalin. For Benedict XVI, it’s: better Islam than birth control, than a Jacobin Europe, than gay marriage, than an unrestrained (we’re just at the beginning) freedom and the matriarchal revenge of women. If patriarchy is put in doubt, the Church erects walls and Islam wages war. (Their alliance isn’t natural).
EDITORIAL By Guido Ceronetti
Translated By Enrico Del Sero
June 8, 2009
Italy – La Stamp – Original Article (Italian)
As far as future generations of Europeans are concerned, nothing could matter to me less. After having lived consciously through the better part of the 20th century, one knows that quite a few bitter pills must be swallowed. And yet, one can still imagine that in its unfathomable kitchen, the foreseeable future is preparing pills that are still more bitter – and those who would like newborns or the unborn in our ancient nations to be left with an easy path are foolishly insulting human destiny.
At least we can predict, with some relief, that no intra-European or Euro-Turkish war will ever be waged again – which doesn’t imply in any way that Pólemos [a supernatural being from Greek mythology, said to be part of the company of war spirits that haunted the battlefield] will begin to snore – that would be unthinkable.
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3 Responses to “As Vatican Seeks Muslim Souls, Europe Fears U.S. Abandonment: La Stampa of Italy”
Wouldn't it be a kick if we found out that religions were actually the devil's work cleverly disguised as holy endeavors? If we took a closer look at the highest mandate of nearly all major religions, The Ten Commandments and their equivalents to find that ritual, holy relics and even churches themselves are idol worship, that there is no mediary between a soul and God but an individual link, connection that no other person can translate?
There's an book called The Screwtape Letters I read as a youngster. It's about the heirarchies of demons and how they'd inflitrated religion itself and all the subtle ways they bend the souls of “the faithful”. It's by C.S. Lewis if memory serves.
Could never look at a church, synagogue or mosque the same way ever since….
Polemos is not a demi-god but a Daemon, a protector of men…
Polemos is not a raiser of war.
The reference to the weighing of souls is not New Testament; it is originally a motif from ancient Greek mythos as well as a Muslim story. The New Testament's Revelation speaks of the souls being judged by whether their names are written in the Book of Life from the beginning. The 'weighing of souls' was also a scene imagined and created by Medieval painters.
It's not Pope Ratzinger, rather Cardinal Ratzinger. And, Pope Benedict XVI.
There are some questions about Pope Pius XII's protection of his priests and Catholics in Nazi over-run countries, but nowhere that he said he'd rather choose Adolf Hitler over Joe Stalin.
dr.e
Commandment #2: “Thou shall make no image of God.”
No robes, no altar, no crucifix, no vessel, no Wall, no church, no ceremony, nothing…
Nothing may represent God because God is unknowable. And there's a damn good reason for this. Pardon the pun.