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Entry: Dhimmis on the Thames Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/dhimmis_on_the_thames#17037 Post contents: Teachem2think. Here is one last post about The Pope visiting the Mosque. <I>Seems to me this is an event that acquires most of its meaning from the lens through which one views it. If you view it through a fearful/defensive/paranoid lens (surf the blogosphere, you’ll find plenty of examples), it is capitulation, “political correctness,” fake nicey-nice, syncretism, etc. If you view it through the lens of confident trust in the Holy Spirit and in the ability of our very able pope, it is considered, deliberate, courteous, astute. If you view it through the lens of ultimate triumph, it is victorious, prophetic. If the latter is less clear, consider—wasn’t there a question some time back about an Imam visiting a Christian cathedral, and how awful that was? Well, which is it: is a leader of a religion coming to the turf of another a sign of strength or of weakness? <B>Seems to me the very fact a priest entered a mosque represents an invasion of Christian sanctity—Christ himself has entered, in persona Christi capitis; in fact, not merely a priest, but a bishop, a successor to the Apostles; and not any successor, but Peter’s successor!</B> <B>Now, some won’t be happy unless he came tossing holy water around and making the sign of the cross. But I would say the pope’s very person—as bishop and as successor to Peter—is vastly more significant in bringing Christ into that mosque.</B> Of course the Muslim triumphalists think they’ve won something, but they believe in Islamic eschatology, whereas we know the truth. Why should we see things through their lens? United States Posted by Fr Martin Fox on 12/2/06 at 10:27 AM Teachem2think. Give-up radtradism for Lent. Repent and return to Rome. You will only be made crazy if you to continue reading the trash served-up by Marian the Barbarian and the rest of the Neo-Pharisees. Sent at: 2008 07 24