Pope Benedict Being Criticised For Condemning Violence

How strange that a man of peace such as Pope Benedict is being criticised for quoting from a book recounting the conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam. The pope and rightly so was stating that religion should not be spread by violence, what moral, sane person can dispute that. We are fighting a war with religious extremists who are doing that very thing. Osma Bin-Laden for one feels that we and our Western Society are evil and his answer is to destroy us and our way of life unless we convert to the Islam religion.

Most Muslims are peaceful good people and not the extremist type who preach violence, who solve there issues with the sword, and though my knowledge of Islam is limited I understand that Allah is a God of peace just as Jesus Christ is a God of peace. Allah does not approve of murder, does not approve of suicide missions, does not approve of torture as is being seen in Baghdad, the terrorists who are waging the war against freedom are perverting there religion, they do not represent the majority of Muslims who are good descent men and women.

Pope Benedict spoke against violence and who can fault him for that, religion should be spread through thought, teaching and love, not violence and terror.

Good will triumph over evil and hopefully another lesson will be learned and peace will once again be upheld, but the saddest part is that many people will die to accomplish this.