tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post3243571059081634114..comments2023-12-28T01:11:49.188-08:00Comments on Cum Lazaro: Islam and apostasy a (sort of) replyLazarushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09716412032074416331noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post-75703084712113640942016-08-07T02:59:45.495-07:002016-08-07T02:59:45.495-07:00You're right that Muslims are closer to us in ...You're right that Muslims are closer to us in many ways than are our apostates, but I don't think that makes them natural allies. The Jews didn't make natural allies for the early Church just because the Jews, like the Church, opposed paganism. There's a sense in which their closeness to us makes them worse and more intolerable, in that they are offering something that is close to the truth, which makes them attractive, but that is not the truth, which makes them deadly. I think this is why the Church and Aquinas were right to be hard on heretics. I recall St. John Bosco arguing against the idea that a bad Catholic is worse than a good Protestant, by saying that at least a bad Catholic is part of the family, and is more likely to be restored to sanctity than is a Protestant. Similarly, a lot of our apostate countrymen are in some ways closer to be restored to the family than are Muslims, because they know, as much as they desire to repress it, that their ancestors were Christian. I think this is why your typical western intellectual is harder on Christianity than on Islam, because he is more desperate to have an intellectual justification for divorcing himself from his heritage. Imagine if the Muslim demographic rose and they took over Britain politically and instituted Sharia law. Let's imagine that they decide to be soft on us and allow us to practice Catholicism in public, without heavily taxing us for it. Do you think that this society is more likely to repent and return to Christ, or the modern godless wasteland? I suspect the latter is closer to Christ. I suspect that your modern apostate abandoned to hedonism IS closer to Christ than the most pious of Muslims. There are still vestiges of Christian sentiment in the West, it's just that some have been heavily distorted and others buried by false philosophy. The modern idea of universal humanity and tolerance for all people is really a twisting of Christianity, and people will become more aware of that when they are confronted with an Eastern religion that has no such idea.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858873453982708283noreply@blogger.com