Comments on: As Vatican Seeks Muslim Souls, Europe Fears U.S. Abandonment: La Stampa of Italy

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:44:41 +0000

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.

By: archangel

archangel — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:15:10 +0000

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

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:07:09 +0000

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....