[Grem] *****SPAM(5.5)***** 'Iszlám, realizmus és a Katolikus Egyház' / William Kilpatrick

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2020. Jan. 7., K, 18:16:25 CET


*Vihar Levente, k. Lttag ajánlásával E/M kiemelésével küldjük az alábbi
óvatosságra intő cikket.Islam, Realism, and the Church *


* William Kilpatrick
<https://www.thecatholicthing.org/author/william-kilpatrick/> Tuesday,
January 7, 2020
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/01/07/islam-realism-and-the-church/?utm_source=The+Catholic+Thing+Daily&utm_campaign=163f7f05ce-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_07_01_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_769a14e16a-163f7f05ce-244185585
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In comments last year, Marcello Pera
<https://www.ilsussidiario.net/news/cronaca/2017/7/10/marcello-pera-vs-papa-francesco-bergoglio-fa-politica-e-in-atto-uno-scisma-nella-chiesa/773071/>,
a prominent Italian intellectual and non-believer, criticized Pope Francis
for “openly going against tradition, doctrine, and introducing inexplicable
innovations, behaviors and gestures.” A philosopher of science, former
president of the Italian Senate, and close friend of Pope Benedict XVI,
Pera asserted that Francis had turned Catholicism into “a Church so
outgoing that it can no longer be found anywhere.” In an earlier 2017
interview with Il Mattino
<https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-ultimate-interview-to-understand.html>,
Pera was even more outspoken.  In answer to a question about
“indiscriminate” welcoming of migrants to Europe, he replied: “Frankly, I
do not get this pope, whatever he says is beyond any rational
understanding.  It’s evident to all that an indiscriminate welcoming is not
possible:  there is a critical point that can’t be reached.” He continued:
“If the pope. . . insists in a massive and total welcoming, I ask myself:
why does he say it?. . .Why does he lack a minimum of realism, that very
little that is requested of anyone?  The answer I can give myself is only
one:  The Pope does it because he hates the West, he aspires to destroy it.
. . .As he aspires to destroy the Christian tradition.” Two years ago, most
Catholics would have found that hard to swallow.  But now, the idea that
Pope Francis hates the West is beginning to seem plausible.  It would
explain much of what he says and does – his criticism of capitalism and
colonialism, Amazonian initiative and, above all, encouragement of mass
Muslim migration into Europe. Does he also aspire to destroy the Christian
tradition?  Well, he rarely misses an opportunity to criticize traditional
Catholics.  At the same time, he seems intent on introducing exotic and
decidedly non-traditional practices into the life of the Church. The key
word, of course, is “aspires.”  Does Francis consciously desire to
“destroy” the West and traditional Christianity (aka Christianity).  Or is
he simply a well-intentioned do-gooder who doesn’t understand the
consequences of his experiments? That’s a serious question, but it’s
unnecessary to know the answer in order to raise a related question:
Whatever the intention, do his policies and programs actually tend toward
the destruction of the West and of Christianity? I would say, “Yes, they
do.” And I would argue, as Professor Pera does, that they “lack a minimum
of realism.”  Future historians may well look back upon our era as the Age
of Unreality.  And many in the Church have embraced this unreality as
though it were a newly revealed Gospel. Some Church leaders have been
flirting with the idea of same-sex marriage, and some seem willing to
believe that females can transition to males and males to females.  Others,
including the pope himself, seem to believe in the fantasy idea that the
lot of the poor can be improved by getting rid of fossil-fuels – which may
be the reason that they have also revived the fantasy of the Noble Savage.
Because, minus the benefits of electric power, much of the world will be
quickly reduced to a primitive level.  In which case, we may all find
ourselves praying to Pachamama and the rain gods for a good harvest. * The
most dangerous fantasy, however, is the one that Church leaders have
created about Islam.  We are told that it’s a religion of peace, that it
shares much common ground with Christianity, that Muslims venerate Jesus
just as Catholics do, that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam, and that
the slaughter of Christians by Muslims can be attributed to a tiny minority
who “misunderstand” their religion. At the same time, we are taught that
“Islamophobia” – an irrational fear of Islam – is a far greater danger than
Islamic aggression. Pera’s point is that these supposedly “irrational”
fears are actually quite reasonable.  He is mainly concerned with the
fantasy that Europe can successfully absorb millions of Muslim migrants who
don’t want to assimilate.  But as one can see, there is a whole basketful
of other fantasies that Catholic leaders believe about Islam. Where does
the fantasy come from?  Some attribute it to the influence of Louis
Massignon (1883-1962), a French Catholic scholar of Islam whose work had a
profound effect on Catholic thinking.  Yet Massignon’s main interest was in
the Sufi mystical tradition within Islam, which is only a sliver of the
whole.  In short, Massignon and his followers seem to have confused Islam
with a relatively small sect of Islam – one that is unrepresentative of
mainstream beliefs and practices.  Indeed, many Muslims look upon the Sufis
as heretics. Massignon’s magnum opus <https://amzn.to/2urtvE1> was
published almost 100 years ago, yet many Catholics still take his
idiosyncratic view of Islam to be the “true” and “authentic” Islam.  Ever
since the publication of Nostra Aetate in 1965, this woefully inadequate
view of Islam has been handed down to successive generations of Catholics,
and it’s well past time to challenge it. Over against the fantasies, there
stands an abundance of facts about Islam that are not friendly to the
current Catholic narrative.  Catholics need to acquaint themselves with
these facts lest they be lured into a deadly complacency. Let’s start with
one rather large and longstanding fact:  All of North Africa, Turkey, and
the Middle East were once Catholic.  In fact, for many centuries they were
the great centers of Catholic culture.  Now, however, these regions are
over 90 percent Muslim. Fast forward a millennium and it looks like the
same thing is happening again.  Lebanon was 62 percent Christian in 1970,
but by 2010 the Christian population was only 36 percent.  In Iraq, the
Christian population has declined by more than 90 percent just since 2003.
Meanwhile, Christians are being slaughtered in the name of Islam all over
the world – in Nigeria, Syria, Kenya, Burkina Faso, the Philippines, Sri
Lanka, and elsewhere. It’s not a pretty picture, but it’s a much more
accurate one than that painted by the Church’s current cadre of
whitewashers, and one that those of us possessing even “a minimum of
realism” need to take very seriously.   *Image: Taking of Jerusalem by the
Crusaders, 15 July 1099 by Emile Signol, 1847 [Castle Museum, Versailles
<http://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/palace/crusades-rooms>,
France]. Godfrey of Bouillon is giving thanks to God in the presence of
Peter the Hermit after the capture of the city. © 2020 The Catholic Thing.
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<info at frinstitute.org> The Catholic Thing is a forum for intelligent
Catholic commentary. Opinions expressed by writers are solely their own. *


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[image: William Kilpatrick] William Kilpatrick William Kilpatrick is the
author of Christianity, Islam and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the
West <http://amzn.to/2esgVrc>, and a new book, The Politically Incorrect
Guide to Jihad <http://amzn.to/2e6asB1>. His work is supported in part by
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