From our bulging “But All Religions Are Really the Same” file
While examples abound of just how barbaric and misogynistic Islamic Sharia law really is, Pope Benedict XVI has issued a new statement condemning chauvinism and violence against women.
Pope Benedict decried chauvinism and the “serious and relentless” exploitation, discrimination and violence being waged against the world’s women.
“There are places and cultures where women are discriminated against or undervalued just for the fact that they are women,” he said Feb. 9 in remarks to participants attending a Vatican-sponsored international congress.
The Feb. 7-9 congress, Woman and Man: The Humanum in Its Entirety, was organized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity to mark the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s apostolic letter, Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women).
The pope told some 250 participants during a special audience at the Vatican that discrimination can be the result of “religious arguments and family, social and cultural pressures” aimed at supporting “the disparity of the sexes.”
The pope recalled a speech he gave last year in Brazil, at a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean bishops, in which he criticized the persistent “chauvinistic mentality” that “ignores the novelty of Christianity which recognizes and proclaims the equal dignity and responsibility of women with respect to men.”
He highlighted how, in some societies, women continue to be violated and are turned into objects “of maltreatment and exploitation in advertising and the consumer and entertainment industry.”
Of course, we the wise folk know that all religions really are the same — Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins tell us so!
But setting all facetiousness aside, the contrasts between Christianity and Islam could not be better illustrated with a picture after reading the above. One is a barbaric faith trapped in 7th century Bedouin bigotry, and one is a living faith that confronts the world before it, and presents to that world the Truth.
It is good, O Reader, that Christianity — in the person of Christ, and in His death and rising again — has already triumphed. Islam is merely something we must contend with for but a while, as we live out the remainder of time in style.
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