cestusdei:
Oh, exactly what I expected. Here is a guy who admits he supports and probably is a member of the taliban. They blew up Buddha statues, tortured women and children, flogged people, buried women to their waists and stoned them to death, beheaded people.
Hi cest,
Don’t put your words in my mouth, cest.
Please show me where I admitted that I support Taliban, if you are a truthful priest and not an antipope?
As to Taliban,
First, when Taliban came into the picture, for the first time?
After Russia’s historic defeat by the American supported Mujahideen groups of Afghanistan and then soon after Russian troops’ complete evacuation, America stopped helping/supporting the Mujahideen that mainly caused chaos in the whole Afghanistan because there was no law and order and ramnents of pro-Communists Afghan regime were roaming like devils and killings and robbing the innocents was daily routine everywhere and there seemed no way out of this chaotic mischievious situation. It was this context if devastated situtation, an Afghan group of young students of Moslem theology, under the name Taliban, with little support of Pakistan’s then government of Be-Nazir Bhutto, was able to restore peace and get a good grip over the ramnents of Communist Afghanis.
So, when Taliban came into the power, they did not have a ready-made fully functional healthy Afghanistan in a silver plate but a mostly devasted and ruined one and there was lawlessness everywhere and civilains were not safe.
Same America who was a good supporter of all Mujahideen groups of Afghanistan, did not support Taliban nor the world community like the idea of an Islamic Afghanistan thus except two countries no one embraced them.
Despite all these non-cooperation, Taliban were able to restore peace and they were on the way to establish whole of Islamic shari’ah because that was their main aim and not political power because they did not came by themselves but the unfortunate chaotic situation forced them to take the challenge of the time. They were poor students.
But since they were not given fair enough time and their power brought to an end by daisy cutter, cluster and carpet bombing on the innocent civilains of Afghanistan, thus you cannot say decisively that they could not have acheived an ideal Islamic state.
But I can say with great confidence by looking at their remarkable achievements in very less time, they could have eventually formed and regulate an ideal Islamic society, as time goes by and by learning from their past mistakes.
Are you assuming that they were or supposed to be some kind of “infallible” rulers?
Are you at the impression that all Popes were infallible? Are you living in your dreamland that your Popes who I guess supposed to be infallible in faith and moral issues, cannot/and or never made any mistake?
Pope Boniface VIII is reported to have said:
The Christian religion is a human invention like the faith of the Jews and the Arabs;
The dead will rise just as little as my horse which died yesterday;
Mary, when she bore Christ, was just as little a virgin as my own mother when she gave birth to me;
Sex and the satisfaction of natural drives is as little a sin as hand washing;
Paradise and hell only exist on earth; the healthy, rich and happy people live in the earthly paradise, the poor and the sick are in the earthly hell;
The world will exist forever, only we do not;
Any religion and especially Christianity does not only contain some truth, but also many errors. The long list of Christian untruth includes trinity, the virgin birth, the godly nature of Jesus, the eucharistic transformation of bread and wine into the body of Christ and the resurrection of the dead.
Do you think all these are true reflection of RCC’s Cathecism?
As per
Mary Ann Collin -a former Catholic nun:
In 769, Pope Stephen IV came to power with the help of an army which conquered the previous Pope. Stephen gave orders for his papal rival to be flogged, have his eyes cut out, have his kneecaps broken, and be imprisoned until he died. Then Pope Stephen sentenced a second man to die a slow, agonizing death. He had pieces of his body cut off every day until he finally died.
[Malachi Martin, “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church,” pages 85-89. (Martin was a Catholic priest and a Vatican insider. He did research in the Vatican Archives. His books are a plea for reform.) Claudio Rendina, pages 153-157. Richard P. McBrien, pages 124-125.]
catholicconcerns.com/Popes.html
Because of this type of Pope (Stephen IV), is it O.K to blame and held responsible the whole Catholic Church and you and all Catholics?
