Concerning Obamacare, an unexpected side effect — well, maybe not entirely unexpected, since some knowledgeable analysts have predicted it — has cropped up. Some insurers are simply unable to break even while meeting government-imposed mandates on their health insurance lines, so they are choosing to drop those lines of insurance. Customers are being sent policy cancellation notices. Whoops.In other news, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Catholic archbishop emeritus of Washington state, says that if people find God via the Koran, it’s OK with him. Who is he to say they’re wrong?
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Catholic Cardinal: “I Cannot Say, ‘Don’t Embrace the Qur’an’“
He also said that if a person “sees the Qu’ran as proof of God’s presence in the world, then I cannot say, ‘Don’t embrace the Qu’ran.’“
Let's all see if Cardinal McCarrick continues to sing the same song after some Muslim wearing a bomb vest "martyrs" himself during a high mass in the Sistine Chapel.
Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church is abandoning its flock to the biggest pack of wolves in history … and the choir sang on.
One more time, no god worth worshiping would ever reward with paradise the mass slaughter of those he created in his own image.
Allah can never be worthy of worship. EVER.
Much as with America, I dread to think of what it will take to finally galvanize Christian awareness of Islam's menace.
...sorry just realized that it is a repost from journeymanpictures of the original sbs video.
Cardinal, Muslims believe that your religion is profane.
You should not have even been there.
I believe that the Cardinal is caught in the same trap as so many others. The 'religious' side of Islam does teach some good things and if it helps the individual become a better person (As we in the West understand the concept) then this is for the better.
What The Cardinal (And so many others) miss is that Islam is a form of government. The legal system and its foreign policy is openly hostile to just about everything that is worth fighting for. The "Nation of Islam" as a national government is at war against us, our governments and our way of life. This alone is worth waging war over. The thing that worries me here is that so many fail to understand this.
joe six-pack: The 'religious' side of Islam does teach some good things and if it helps the individual become a better person (As we in the West understand the concept) then this is for the better.
Anything of worth in Islam is damned by its incessant coercion. If an audience's applause is extracted at gunpoint, it has no meaning, save that it has been obtained against its will.
The same goes for Islam. All of the "good things" about it are extorted under threat of corporal or capital punishment. There is nothing more degrading or meaningless to the human spirit than compulsary worship.
There is compulsion in, and throughout, Islam which voids every bit of worth it might have conveyed to a voluntary participant.
Just as a god cannot be worthy of worship if he rewards with paradise a slaughterer of innocent human life, neither can a priest who herds his flock with a sword be a good shepherd.
Lambs cannot be guided with a club.
Do so and your flock is maimed and diminished in worth.
In a case of Reverse Midas Touch™, Islam diminishes all who are within its sphere. It makes a mockery of faith just as shari'a makes a mockery of justice.
Neither deserve the respect of worthy people and Muslims abase themselves by their compliance.
In other news, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Catholic archbishop emeritus of Washington state, says that if people find God via the Koran, it’s OK with him
He appears to have been suckered by the false meme that Islam is "Abrahamic".
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