Leo allows Moslems who hate the Faith and conquered its Eastern shrines and holy places, who enslaved tens of thousand of Christians and slaughtered many more, who do so today, to have a special "prayer space" in the Vatican library. But Urban II was of a different mind, he preached a crusade at Clermont and the nobility of the West, and their people, rose to the defense of the Holy Land. More than that, they won; Jerusalem, the Holy City, was within Christendom again.
Here's Urban:
"Although, O sons of God, you have promised more firmly than ever to keep the peace among yourselves and to preserve the rights of the church, there remains still an important work for you to do. Freshly quickened by the divine correction, you must apply the strength of your righteousness to another matter which concerns you as well as God. For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them. For, as the most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them and have conquered the territory of Romania [the Greek empire] as far west as the shore of the Mediterranean and the Hellespont, which is called the Arm of St. George. They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians, and have overcome them in seven battles.
"They have killed and captured many, and have destroyed the churches and devastated the empire. If you permit them to continue thus for awhile with impurity, the faithful of God will be much more widely attacked by them. On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights, poor and rich, to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile race from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ commands it. "All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins.
"This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested. O what a disgrace if such a despised and base race, which worships demons, should conquer a people which has the faith of omnipotent God and is made glorious with the name of Christ! With what reproaches will the Lord overwhelm us if you do not aid those who, with us, profess the Christian religion! Let those who have been accustomed unjustly to wage private warfare against the faithful now go against the infidels and end with victory this war which should have been begun long ago. Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.
"Let those who have been fighting against their brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way against the barbarians. Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward. Let those who have been wearing themselves out in both body and soul now work for a double honor. Behold! on this side will be the sorrowful and poor, on that, the rich; on this side, the enemies of the Lord, on that, his friends. Let those who go not put off the journey, but rent their lands and collect money for their expenses; and as soon as winter is over and spring comes, let hem eagerly set out on the way with God as their guide."
That, remarkably, ignited the West, as opposed to Moslem "prayer spaces;" in the dam Vatican, for goodness sake. Point of this shallow post? Stand firm for the faith.
Your Buddy,
LSP
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By giving the muzzies a prayer space, even temporarily, the muzzies can now claim, according to their unholy religion, that that space is now Dar al Islam, or part of the land of Islam.
Good going, Leo, you stupid copulation.
Urban's call, all true statements by the way, has always stirred my soul. Too old, fat, bound to taking care of my wife, but if I could, I'd wear the Cross and go Crusading.
Abomination of desolation, perhaps not the one Jesus was talking about but another right out in the open for all to see anyway. Even an ignorant Protestant like me knows that ain't right. And they didn't even have to wield so much as a plastic spoon to conquer it.
The camel's nose under the tent...
On a different note, what do you think about this video, LSP?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMxOLiS9DOo
It's about the global split of the Anglican Church.
Crusty Old TV Tech here. Abp. Fulton Sheen: "He will set up a counter church which will be the ape of the Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. . . ." Like a trip with the kids in the back seat I ask the question, "are we there yet?". The church has had prophets modern and ancient admonishing us, as this line from a long-ago Abp Sheen missive does, yet we (the Church Militant) did not turn from the path of perdition. When the martial spirit no longer exists in Christendom, the result is weak, feminized, communized, go-along-with-the-spirit-of-the-world "men" and "theology". CoE is a screaming example, the various Lutheran offshoots too, but the example that tears at the fabric of Christendom most, IMHO, is the betrayal of the Deposit of Faith we see now in Rome. I had high hopes for Pope Leo, but his very words have condemned him in my estimation. He should be leading the charge against the Flesh, the Devil, and the World, but he does the opposite. The Barque of St. Peter is being steered by a madman toward the very rocks avoided by his predecessors, and why? Is there no fear of final, particular judgement in this man?
A mind so open that things wander in and out of their own volition.
Further, from Gateway Pundit: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/church-england-splits-losing-40-million-members-as/
Sounds like a serious FAFO/Beotch Slap by the non-GB Anglicans.
Outrageous, Beans.
Dam straight, Wild.
Mr. Beans, it's primarily a spiritual war. All take part.
Yes, pewster.
Beans, the sands are shifting, and about dam time.
Tech -- I 100% agree and what can we say? ++Sheen was remarkable and true. But hey, never lose hope, the mystical body of Christ cannot and will not be defeated.
Now, will all those medieval shrines return to the Faith in England? The Cure D'Ars seemed to think so, and he was no fool.
There's hope in that.
My Dear Ritchie, it's a right scandal.
Yes, it is outrageous. And very sad. And the bastards all (everyone in the Holy See) should know friggin better. Dammit.
No, it isn't a spiritual war. There is actual ground lost, daily. Lifes and souls lost daily. How many lives before it becomes a shooting war? How many Christian deaths does it take before we shoot the be-damned bastids in the face?
Heinlein, in his great philosophy book, "History and Moral Philosophy" (otherwise known as "Starship Troopers" and the movies sucked donkey reproductive members by the way) postulated it takes the death of one civilian to spark a headhunting of epic proportions.
How many innocent US Christians have died under muzzie hands? Why are, after over 1400 years of ongoing violence and chicanery, any of them alive?
Is your congregation/pastorage/parish one of those splitting with the English Church?
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