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Entry: Pope Benedict XVI and Islam: Allah the Irrational Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/pope_benedict_xvi_and_islam_allah_the_irrational#1888 Post contents: As a Croatian who marched alongside thousands of Serbs in New York City to protest the unconscionable U.S. attack on Yugoslavia, and a long-time devotee of the liturgy of St. John Chrysostem, which I’ve attended many times at a Russian Catholic Church, I feel immune to charges that I am bigoted against the Orthodox. However, I would ask Mr. RV: How is Nicholas II, who was, excuse me, TSAR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS, less responsible for the persecution of Jews in his own empire than a mere archbishop who was trying, unsuccessfully, to restrain the butcheries committed by a totalitarian regime? And if the crimes of genocide committed against the Ukrainian Catholics are something that true Russian Orthodox reject as a work of Stalin, then why is the Orthodox Church refusing to return ANY of the parishes stolen from the despised “Uniates” at the point of Soviet bayonets? Every earthly branch of Christ’s Church has some blood on its hands. How about the Southern Baptists, founded to defend slavery? The Anglicans… well, I don’t need to go into that, do I? (Google “Carthusian martyrs” if you’re curious.) The Quakers have perhaps the least blood—but their role as Communist dupes during the Cold War isn’t pretty, nor is their almost total (except for some Meetings in the Western U.S.) abandonment of, well, Christianity. If we continue to allow these historical wrongs, real as they were, to divide us, we hand Satan an incalculable victory. And he’s doing just fine without our help, in my opinion. Sent at: 2008 11 23