Pope Cites French Epic Poem to Prove Christianity Is as Violent as Islam

[rangerrebew]

Pope Cites French Epic Poem to Prove Christianity Is as Violent as Islam

Nov 26, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer 32 Comments

My latest in PJ Media:

The indefatigable apologist for Islam Pope Francis on Monday issued yet another mea culpa to Muslims, saying: “A scene from The Song of Roland comes to me as a symbol, when the Christians defeat the Muslims and line them up in front of the baptismal font, with one holding a sword. And the Muslims had to choose between baptism or the sword. That is what we Christians did.”

Was it really? The Song of Roland is actually a work of fiction, a French epic poem loosely based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass between Muslim invaders and Christian defenders in the year 778. As The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS shows, in the eleventh century, three hundred years after the battle, The Song of Roland appeared, describing the heroism of Charlemagne’s nephew Roland, who is leading the rear guard of Charlemagne’s forces and is caught up in the Muslim ambush.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/11/pope-cites-french-epic-poem-to-prove-christianity-is-as-violent-as-islam-2

[rangerrebew]

Has the Pope become a CINO (Christian In Name Only)?

[XenaLee]

Has the Pope become a CINO (Christian In Name Only)?

Nah.  He started out that way.

[Jazzhead]

Is there truly equivalence between religiously-inspired killings from 600 years ago and religiously-inspired killings that make the news, it seems,  each and every day?   

[240B]

Attempts to mollify Islam does not make them your friend.
The opposite. It emboldens them and makes them more violent and murderous.

[PeteS in CA]

The poem is about an attempt to block a Muslim invasion of France. Probably not a subject Pope Francis would have wanted to highlight, since it contradicts his intended narrative.

[XenaLee]

The poem is about an attempt to block a Muslim invasion of France. Probably not a subject Pope Francis would have wanted to highlight, since it contradicts his intended narrative.

Yes... but as with most lefties... his arrogance precludes him from presuming that the masses he is trying to fool are bright enough to have picked up on that fact and truth.  Typical.

[mountaineer]

Is he afraid to quote actual - you know - Scripture?

[Fishrrman]

Wanted:
A pope that will vigorously defend Christianity.

This "pope" seems to be an apologist of islam and communism.

[240B]

This "pope" seems to be an apologist of islam and communism.

Both of which have killed millions of Christians.
But this "sort of a Pope of some kind" doesn't seem to care.
Has he ever mentioned the deliberate genocide of Yazidi Christians in Syria by his beloved Muslim brothers?
Has he ever mentioned the torture and beheadings done by his Muslim friends even to today?
Has he ever mentioned how Christians are kidnapped and sold into ongoing slavery including sexual slavery by his Muslim Saints in several Islamic countries including Africa?

For some reason, these facts seem to elude his holiness...
I agree that this Pope seems to be obsessed with the beauty and peace of Islam. Whatever brought him to that conclusion, nobody will ever know? It certainly is not based on facts. It is certainly not based on Islam's treatment of Christians and Christianity. Apparently the Pope does not consider facts to be relevant. He has it in his head that Islam is wonderful, and no stupid genocide is going to change his mind.

[Absalom]

This Man of the left is little more than a noisy buffoon
who was raised in the Argentina of Peron.
Mercifully he is 82 years old and not 28!!!!!!

[Chosen Daughter]

Is he afraid to quote actual - you know - Scripture?

I think that day is long gone.  He recently had the Lords prayer changed to omit lead us not into temptation.

[Chosen Daughter]

Wanted:
A pope that will vigorously defend Christianity.

This "pope" seems to be an apologist of islam and communism.

John Paul was too.  Remember him kissing the Koran?

[Smokin Joe]

Wanted:
A pope that will vigorously defend Christianity.

This "pope" seems to be an apologist of islam and communism.

Communism is antithetical to The Church. In practice, it has ever been the worship of godless power, enforced through the murder of innocents whose only crime is in failing to worship the State.

Mollifying Islam spits on the graves of all who bled to defend the Holy Land and Christianity, and those who bleed each day in the same cause. Ignoring the blood of countless martyrs for the Christian faith to toady up to their oppressors is shameful in the least.

The Almighty gave the world to man, and all in it to use. While waste and destruction are a poor treatment of that gift, it is not Humanity who controls the climate, but The Almighty, through the machinations of His design (Creation). Worshiping that creation, rather than the creator is to place a false Idol in front of the altar.

May the scales fall from his eyes and he truly see and repent from this folly.

[kevindavis007]

Worst Pope in my lifetime.

[Absalom]

The catalyst for the rot remains the Vatican, a self-sustaining bureaucracy.
As a consequence, the College of Cardinals is peopled w/numerous
radical/secular types who most certainly don't belong in the priesthood.
Consider the corrosive disease of homosexuality which has raged and
disgraced the Church for decades. It's fan club, among religious types,
insists a married priesthood holds the solution, which is horse manure.
The answer is in re-affirmation of the Natural Law, which recognizes the
Family Unit of Father, Mother and Children, as the bedrock of all cultures/societies.