By Walid Shoebat
Throughout the Church’s history, it has warred with Islam. Yet, it
has nothing to offer us today. This is the typical answer I get when I
discuss Christian history with many Evangelicals. They tell me that
beyond the Bible, there is nothing else we need. So next time you have a
fire in the house, read the Bible, don’t forget to pray while you
forget dialing 911 and enjoy the smoke and fire billowing inside the
house.
I find it difficult to even ask questions: What was Christian history
like, that withstood Islam’s evil and defeated it in Europe? Why and
how did Christendom lose Egypt and Asia Minor to Islam? And what are we
doing in our days to emulate or not emulate from that history?
The one million dollar question that no one can answer – although I
will get many remarks from people damning me as a heretic – is this: Why
did God choose Catholics to stop Islam in its tracks in all the major
battles intended to destroy Christendom? Anyone who has the answer,
please step forward.
What do most spirit-filled evangelicals know about the Battle of
Lepanto, Battle of Tours, The Battle of Vienna, and The Battle of Malta?
Had the ‘damned’ Catholics not fought the Battle of Tours, all of
Europe would have been Muslim today, like in Asia Minor. It would have
been the end of Christianity, as we know it. Today, Turkey (Byzantium)
is 99% Muslim and looks very likely to produce the Antichrist while
Evangelicals still think that Antichrist and the Harlot is the Roman
Catholic Church.
Why is it so rare to find holy spirit-filled evangelicals that speak
of such history, except paint it as Crusader, dark, warring and
bloodthirsty? What difference then is there between the die-hard liberal
and the spirit-filled evangelical? Both criticize this history. Even
further, like many evangelicals and liberals, the Muslims also condemn
this history. So why do we echo their interpretation as we damn the
Catholic?
Why? Is it because of them ‘damned’ Catholics who defended
Christendom and saved the Protestants from utter annihilation? Could it
be perhaps the Catholics did something right, like fight them damned
Muslims and thwart them from annihilating Christendom?
In all these battles there were no Protestants coming to help save
Europe and Protestant states refrained from helping or even lifting a
finger. They were too busy doing Bible studies on how them ‘damned’
Catholics were the Antichrist.
Perhaps I need to exercise the typical American habit before speaking
about such matters and prequalify my statements. I am not saying that
all Protestants are evil, heavens no. Yet, every time I say the word
“Catholic” and the whole church jumps up and down pin-pointing the
leaven of the Catholics without even looking into the piles of dung
worth of heretical books produced by so-called evangelicals.
Is the rich Catholic history such an evil subject that the Bible
warned us not to touch and even beat down on the Catholic wars with
Islam? Even during Nazism, there were many more of these ‘damned’
Catholics that chose to die in Hitler’s ovens than there were
evangelicals and Protestants put together. Are these Catholics damned to
hell despite making a choice to enter Hitler’s furnace? Which of the
two is more pleasing to God, the sodomite loving pastor or the Jew
loving Catholic who died in the infernos of Hitler’s crematoria?
So who will answer my questions? Will it be some unlearned,
half-cocked, spikey-haired, tattooed, nose-pierced, ear ringed, mocking,
useless, teenage brained heretic from
The Free Grace Movement
who will instantly obtain from his own authority to anathematize and
excommunicate me since such homosexual sodomite sinners must be welcomed
into the fold as Christians without repentance? Will such mutants be
the future soldiers who will outdo the Knights of Saint John and fight
to thwart the forces of darkness and the devil? What will they use to
fight, the earrings of their noses and the spikes of their stupid
looking hair? Or perhaps these are the very sons of the devil?
Must I denounce the Pope as a heretic while I remain silent on
America’s pastor, this self-appointed son-of-the-devil-pope named Rick
Warren who signs a treaty with Islam saying we “worship the same God”?
Dare I say anything on that fattened whore who pussyfoots with
homosexuality while he condemns the Crusaders in that very treaty?
Perhaps these things can aid in answering my question, which I’ve
asked more than once and no one seems to have answered: During my
two-decade walk in my Holy Spirit filled evangelical faith; Jesus said:
“I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it”. Well, in two thousand years, who was this church? Was the church
lost from the time the authors of the New Testament departed until the
time the holy Martin Luther showed up? Hitler
used Martin Luther’s demonic writ,
On The Jews and Their Lies, to help him rid Europe of six million Jews.
Evangelicals answer this dilemma by saying that the true Church was
always there but it was persecuted by them ‘damned’ Catholics. Yet, such
answers are impossible to prove. Perhaps some Jesus-style questions
will help clarify this issue. So which Christian movement was it that
them ‘damned’ Catholics persecuted? Was it the Montanists, Novationists,
Donatists, Docetists, Cathars, Albigensians, Waldenses, Hussites, and
the followers of Wycliff? Were these “The Church” that Jesus spoke
about? Were these the true Bible-believing, evangelical-type,
spirit-filled believers?
There is no historian who will tell you that these movements even fit
into the definition of evangelical “spirit-filled” model. Such
movements, which the Catholics squashed (thank God), were radically
non-Christian, heretical, and gnostic. Only the Waldenses and the
Hussites were somewhat Christian but even these were closer to
Catholicism than they were evangelical. How would a common Holy
Spirit-filled evangelical even know what these movements are all about?
After all, we only need the Bible and the hell with history, right? To
ignore history is to also ignore the Bible.
Even Martin Luther and the Protestant movement, which came up with
the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) that is adhered to by
protestant denominations, in fact, aided the Ottoman Muslims and
provided them with tin to build canons to destroy catholic states
because in their view, the Catholic Church was the Harlot of Babylon and
the Antichrist.
So important was this WCF that it was an essential doctrine of the
faith and was non-negotiable. If the Trinity was essential, so was this
belief regarding Catholics. Despite Islam’s overt denial of the Trinity,
it was never even mentioned in the WCF while the Catholics who
prevented the annihilation of Christendom, took precedence over Islam
when it came to that document, despite Islam being the religion of
Antichrist. Even Martin Luther himself came around on this issue to
confess after reading the writing of the Catholic Riccaldo Di Montecroce
in his wonderful work,
Refutation of The Quran.
As a result, Luther changed his views and even according to him Islam
was the system of Antichrist, yet the WCF never even included it.
And lest I get into grace versus works theology… One thing is
certain; Jesus gave the example about the good worker and the gung-ho
church-goers of His day when He chose the Samaritan over the Pharisee
who walked by the persecuted beaten naked man and did nothing, claiming
he was doing the Lord’s business. If we take that example, the Samaritan
in that time would be viewed as the way we view a Catholic; ‘he was all
screwed up and got it all wrong’. The Samaritan didn’t even follow Sola
Scriptura and his canon of Scripture was missing many books. He even
believed such madness that the Temple was on mount Gerizim and not
Jerusalem. Yet, Jesus honored the Samaritan over the Pharisee who got
both the Bible and Temple correct – but helped not, the persecuted.
When Jesus comes, He will throw in hell many ‘damned’ Catholics and
them ‘damned’ Evangelicals for not helping persecuted un-damned Jews,
un-damned Catholics and un-damned Evangelicals and other un-damned
others (Matthew 25). Today, neither Catholic nor Protestant is doing
much to save Christians slaughtered in Muslim countries. Name me the
organization that rescues Christians today? There are NONE. We try and
our supporters are predominately Armenian, Copts and Assyrians. Where is
America’s pastor? Where are the American Evangelicals and Catholics?
Perhaps I should follow the Copt, Assyrian or even Armenian and dump
this modernized homosexual-loving, Americanized version of Christianity.
While we accuse these ancient churches of holding to deuterocanonical
books like The Wisdom of Solomon, which Evangelicals reject, in less
than fifty words, sums up the entire purpose of the Incarnation of the
Son of God and why God became man:
“While all things were in quiet silence, and the night
was in the midst of her swift course, Thine almighty Word leaped out of
Heaven out of Thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war, into the midst
of a land of destruction.” (Wisdom of Solomon, 18:14-15)
Who is this “Thine almighty Word”? Who was “The Word”? When will He
leap from out of Heaven and out of “Thy Royal throne”? When will He be
this “man of war”? Is this not a prophecy about Christ coming to battle
in the end of days? Who is He battling with? The Catholics, who
preserved the Bible – including The Wisdom of Solomon? Has wisdom
departed from earth that no man can point it out? Isn’t the Holy Spirit
leading me to re-discover such prophecies struck out of the American
evangelical Bibles? Is Polycarp who was the student of John unnecessary
for study? Was Irenaeus his student so unimportant? Was the Coptic
Church that was founded by Saint Mark of the Bible unimportant? Was it
not Christ who built that Church in Egypt? Even when the Portuguese
first entered India they found native Christians who, to their surprise,
declared their apostolic succession to St. Thomas.
When I first became Christian, I entered an Evangelical Church that
taught me that in Daniel chapter II, the two legs were the Eastern and
Western churches (Orthodox and Catholic) and that these were the spirit
of Antichrist. Yet, I never believed them because I examined the Word of
God and discovered that Bible prophecies were speaking of Islam. Was I
not following the Bible or were these Evangelicals misinterpreting the
Bible? It was the Evangelicals who also misinterpreted many things in
the Bible.
I reject all doctrines that differ with the Bible but for centuries,
Holy Protestants have pointed to several Popes as Antichrist, which have
all turned out to be false. Is this not unholy slander? Did Jesus not
warn about such damned slanderers?
We trumpet: “my people perish for the lack of knowledge” when we, the
ones who trumpet such verses are perishing. There is a difference
between
knowing the Bible and
doing the Bible.
But there is also a difference between emotionally loving Jesus and
doing what Jesus says. We preach something. Yet, we follow the opposite;
we continue in lacking knowledge.
As a result, we see things from a certain prism we think is holy and is not.
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My many thanks to Walid Shoebat for his enlightened article.
El Greco
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