Discourse from Pope Benedict XVI at Ratisbonne
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Discourse from Pope Benedict XVI at Ratisbonne
In his allocation of Ratisbonne, Pope Benedict XVI declares, among other things:
(the translation in English – here from the french version of the discourse - is from us):
In the seventh dialogue (dialexis - controversy) published by professor Khoury, the emperor [Manuel II Paléologue] approached the theme of jihad, the holy war. Actually, the emperor knew that in the sura 2, 256 we can read : « no constraint in religion! ». It is one of the suras of the firt period - tell the scolars - when Mahomet had himself at that time no power and was threatened. But indeed the emperor also knew the rules, developed afterward and fixed in the Koran, about the holy war. Without going into details, such as difference of treatment between those who know the Holly Book and the « uncultivated », the emperor, with a rather surprising harshness which amazes us, simply addresses his interlocutor with the central issue on the relation between religion and violence generally, by saying :
« Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.»
The emperor, after having expressed in a so “unkindly way”, explains then in details the reasons why diffusion of the faith by intermediate of violence is an unreasonable thing.[/color:8035286ca4][/color]
[color=black:8035286ca4]This extract of the discourse of Pope Benedict XVI, in particular the text underlined, is to be correlated to an another text included in the New Testament of the Bible, and belonging to the Gospel according to Saint Matthieu, chapter X - which we read here in the digitized AV - 1769 Authorized Version )[/color:8035286ca4]
[color=darkred:8035286ca4][i]32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that...