It seems that February 11 will be marked as the day when world leaders step down !! Mubarak stepped down on February 2011 and Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will step down also on February 2013.
Benedict XVI announced today that he will step down exactly at February 28,2013. A very quick and surprising announcement, the man did not wait for two or three months but for two weeks.
When the news hit the wire , I thought it was some kind of hoax like that rumor yesterday about the Duke of Edinburgh’s death yet what you know !! Soon enough an official statement was posted in the Vatican’s official website and the man himself spoke to the World about it.
Benedict XVI said that he can not continue in his position because he has no strength. In other words he suffers from some health issues that may affect his ability to continue as the Spiritual leader of the Catholic world. I thought the Popes continue in their position till death regardless of their health condition !! First time to know that they
The 85 years old Pontiff is considered the second Pope in 600 to resign from that extremely important position after Gregory XII.
Needless to say now the Conspiracy theories websites got nothing to speak about except the Nostradamus’ Prophecy about the Black Pope linking it to Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana. There is good chance that Turkson could be the first African Black Pope of Catholic Church for the first time in history. Now You got people online calling him the Antichrist already !!
This is of course the conspiracy theories on why Benedict had to step down now !!
Anyhow Cardinal Turkson’s views about considering Islam as demographic threat in Europe tells me he is not that different from Benedict XVI , after all we live in times of radicalism and extremism.
i agree i always thpought the peope stays til death that no one would give up this honor for any reason. i think he is too weak to handle the worlds problems. thats how sick the world is right now where the great faithful turn away! i really feel the end of days coming. :-(
ReplyDeletei dont think hes the anti christ. we need to see who will be chosen next.. with eyes wide open.
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Revelation chapter 17
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
Take note the colours of the bishops and cardinals of the Catholic church and the golden vessels they use in their ceremonies with wine and bread in them!
I think that the present Pope's remarks about Islam by quoting a Greek source that was a witness to the atrocities committed against his own people by the Turks is very true because this is indeed what happened
ReplyDeleteThere is no doubt that the Arab invasions in the 7th century were about looting and destruction and no more and it was the civilized people that were the subjects of these atrocities they were the ones that made Islam what it is. And it is no secret that Iranians wrote as per Ali Dashti 70% of kutub al-turath al-islami and in the process made islam what it is. Just can you imagine Islam without the likes of al-Tabari?
Oh the Arabs? they were busy looting and raping and collecting al-jizya and praying to Allah!
And there is no doubt that Sayyed el-Qimni is correct that the Arabs INVADED Egypt and that it was imperialism and should be viewed as such.
I suspect that if the Saudis have the power or the will they will re-embark on other holy wars but the good news is that they have grown too fat and too lazy and too rich to invade the lands of other nations
That brings me back to the Pope's remarks: he was right on the mark that there is an islam that is imperialist and violent and this is what moderate Muslims should renounce once and for all