German Catholic theologian and priest Oliver Wintzek has published an op-ed arguing that Islam can be understood as an “alternative form of Byzantine Christianity” and that Muslims should be viewed as Christians’ “younger brothers and sisters.”
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One of the many problems with this is that it won’t be reciprocated. Wintzek wants Christians in Europe to welcome mass Muslim migration and not be concerned about it. However, many of those Muslims in Europe believe they are “the best of people raised up for mankind, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong” (Qur’an 3:110), while non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). Wintzek, of course, like other leftists, neither knows nor cares about those aspects of Islam.
ploome says
we have entered an era where the inmates are running the asylum
another crackpot raises its head
mgoldberg says
What’s so startling is that these are clerics; those who study the ins and out so theology, philosophy perhaps. Certainly the history of the entire rape of the Christian world by Islam was recorded and studied and now….. now they are back in kindergarten playing with dolls and making up fables for show and tell.
Taffy says
This priest has rocks in his head. Loving everyone unconditionally is not the way of Christ. The Muzzies certainly will not reciprocate, and in fact want to kill Christians, and Jews and Hindus and everyone who isn’t Muslim. They even want to kill the wrong type of Muslim. A priest has to realize this, and must act accordingly instead of making theological excuses for the Muzzies.
It was in fact, Pope Urban II who initiated the crusading movement in 1095 to reclaim Jerusalem and help fellow Christians. Pope Eugene III and Pope Innocent III proclaimed subsequent Crusades, maintaining the institutional backing of the Catholic Church.
It is wishful thinking, but Pope Leo XIV should proclaim a Crusade to rid Europe of its Muzzie filth, and bring back Catholicism as the national religion of previously all Catholic European countries, and Protestant Christianity to the rest.
Raja says
Pope Leo XIV will do nothing as his concern is not running his church but an enabler for Leftists/Islamists agenda. He seems to be a totally depraved man. He appears to be well versed with Lefty doctrine than the bible.
Billy says
Islam and its Muslims are a Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Enterprise against all Non-Muslims with Muslim propaganda, discrimination, deceit, hatred, violence, and terrorism as taught by Allah in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:28; 7:99; 9:5, 29, 41, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 commands, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” Ultimately, Allah desires to fill hell with Non-Muslims(Qur’an 7:18; 11:119; 32:13; 98:6, etc.).
Public Funding is a privilege that should not be granted to organizations like Islam and its Muslim Organizations which are fundamentally against the US Constitution and Western Constitutions due to Muslim discrimination, segregation, violence, and terrorism. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” See also Qur’an 2:191; 4:89, 91; 8:60; 9:5, 29, 111; 47:4; 48:29, etc.
Raja says
Catholics have been pathetic for centuries as far as understanding doctrines goes thanks to the church’s practice of withholding the bible from the flock for a long long time. Not that doctrines are rocket science. It is just teachings and if you have the attitude of learning coupled with adding up similar verses in the bible you are pretty much on track to understand the bible and its principles. I don’t know it if there is emphasis on obeying the bible (God says: be holy as I am holy as found in Leviticus 19:2 & 1 Peter 1:16) When this man blurts out some nonsense he sounds like an absolute nut)
John the Mad says
Raja: Although I agree this priest is absolutely in error, you are wrong about the Church witholding the bible. The Catholic Church never issued a universal ban on laypeople reading the Bible, and the claim that it systematically withheld Scripture is historically inaccurate.
While no pope or ecumenical council ever issued an absolute prohibition on vernacular Bible reading, the Church did enforce localized restrictions in specific regions and periods to combat heretical movements and unverified translations.
Medieval Restrictions: Councils such as Toulouse (1229) and Oxford (1408) banned lay possession of vernacular Bibles in their jurisdictions, primarily to prevent the spread of heresy rather than to suppress Scripture itself.
Chained Bibles: Bibles were chained to lecterns in medieval churches for security reasons to prevent theft, a practice also used by Protestants, which actually facilitated communal reading rather than restricting it.
Historical Context: For most of history, low literacy rates meant most people could not read the Bible regardless of permission, and the Church preserved, translated, and promoted Scripture through the Latin Vulgate and various vernacular editions long before the Protestant Reformation.
Vernacular Bibles flourished across Catholic Europe well before 1500 [i.e., before the Reformation], often with explicit Church sanction. As historian Frans van Liere puts it: “There was a large corpus of medieval vernacular translations and paraphrase of biblical texts, and there were no objections against their use, as long as these texts and their uses avoided association with heretical groups.”
Key examples by region:
English Caedmon (7th c.), Venerable Bede (d. 735), King Alfred the Great (849–899), Aelfric (d. c. 1020), Orm (c. 1150), Richard Rolle (d. 1349)
French Bible du XIIIᵉ siècle (ca. 1220–60), Bible historiale (1297)
Spanish Biblia Alfonsina (1280), Biblia de Alba
Italian Archbishop Giacomo of Genoa (~1220), Malermi Bible (1471, reprinted 13+ times); 25 Italian versions with express Church sanction before 1500
German Raban Maur (late 8th c.), Mentelin Bible (1466 — first printed vernacular Bible)
Dutch/Flemish Herne Bible (1359–84), first printed Dutch Bible (1475)
Icelandic By 1279
Polish Commissioned by Queen Jadwiga
Swedish Mid-14th century
The Cambridge History of the Bible confirms that “no universal and absolute prohibition of the translation of the Scriptures into the vernacular… was ever issued by any council of the Church or any pope.” The localized bans (Toulouse 1229, Oxford 1408) were targeted responses to specific heretical movements, not a general policy — and even in those regions, vernacular Scripture continued to circulate.
somehistory says
Raja is not wrong. I’ve met many Catholics and none have ever been encouraged to read the Bible.
One, with whom I became close friends, began to read hers and then began to ask her priest questions. He told her she didn’t need to read and they he would tell her what she needed to know.
Certain Bible translators, were hounded by the “church” because they were making the Bible readable by the average person. Persecuted and murdered.
For one example, some paragraphs from the Briticannia:
“Tyndale became convinced that the Bible alone should determine the practices and doctrines of the church and that all believers should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
William Tyndale’s Bible
William Tyndale’s BibleThe opening page of chapter 1 of the Gospel According to John from William Tyndale’s translation of the Bible, 1525–26; in the British Library.
Because of the influence of printing and a demand for Scriptures in the vernacular, William Tyndale began working on a New Testament translation directly from the Greek in 1523. After church authorities in England prevented him from translating the Bible there, he went to Germany in 1524, receiving financial support from wealthy London merchants. His New Testament translation was completed in July 1525 and printed at Cologne. Again under pressure, this time from the city authorities, Tyndale fled to Worms, where two more editions were published in 1525. The first copies were smuggled into England in 1526, where they were at once proscribed.
“church authorities prevented him.”
He began work on the Hebrew Scriptures (a.k.a. Old Testament), but was murdered before he could finish the work
“Condemned for heresy, he was executed by strangulation and then burned at the stake at Vilvoorde in 1536.’
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Tyndale
He was not the only one murdered by “church authorities.”…for translating so the common person could read for themselves.
John Pepple says
This is why I say that the future is Islamic. All kinds of people who should be against the Muslim invasion in fact support it. Why would any Christian want so many Muslims around? And why would leftists want to import so many people who are obviously religious conservatives? Why would feminists want to import so many men who obviously hate feminism? Ditto for gays, Jews, dog lovers, people who like booze, and so on. Every single one of them should be against the Islamic invasion, yet they all seem to be in favor of it.
Spiro says
This statement is so stupid not ignorant but stupid its beyond comment
Wellington says
???????
somehistory says
And The God he pretends to worship, obey, and about Whom he promised to teach, heard the fool say it.
From long ago, there has been a place ‘prepared for the devil and his angels’ (messengers) and there is a “lake” which is for “all of the liars and those disgusting in their filth.”
there is no way on this earth that Christians are seen by God as ‘brothers and sisters’ to muzzies who would gladly murder any Chistian at any time.
There is no way Christ will protect those who have beheaded His children when He returns.
Two Scriptures..
“6 After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels 8 in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.…”
“I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”
This German idiot is not doing any one any favors. He neither knows God, nor Christ, and has chosen to lie about Christianity, as opposed to trying to help people see.
God and Christ heard him say it.
Siddhi Nasranni says
He is a Slave of Satan.
somehistory says
Yes, he is “doing his father’s desires.”