tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080083325953853821.post2395139543437164342..comments2024-03-24T11:39:40.959-07:00Comments on GD's Political Animal: Catholicism and IslamGeorge J. Dancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17802922538748186834noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1080083325953853821.post-46351227500220893372017-12-06T02:44:26.219-08:002017-12-06T02:44:26.219-08:00Quigley's theory is very interesting but hardl...Quigley's theory is very interesting but hardly necessary to explain the bloodthirsty history of the Catholic Church. They did not need any Moslems to make them that way, and I think you'll find they had been happily killing those of different sects, and outright different religions for quite a while before Islam burst forth from the Arabian peninsula in the 7th Century. I would like to recommend that you and your readers take a fresh look at Rose Wilder Lane's classic The Discovery of Freedom. In that, she displays a rather different take on Mohammed and Islam than I have seen anywhere else. She suggests that the Moslems were far more civilized and open than the Catholic Europeans were, and that it was contact with them that fostered the beginning of the Renaissance. (Spreading from Sicily, which was occupied by the Saracens and thus had universities, medical schools, etc. which were easily accessible to the Italians of the day.) Far from being caused by the "Islamization" of Spanish culture, Lane avers pretty plainly that the Spanish Inquisition, for example, was initiated to root out that culture among the (by definition) suspect Moriscos in case they might have heard or might say something that would contradict the teachings of the Holy Mother Church. I suspect that this "libertarian invasion" talk from the current Pope is at least as much because he's a Marxist (and not the Groucho kind...) as because he's a Catholic. Now, if we want to talk about Marxist jihadism, that's a whole other interesting history...truenorthcomm.1776@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18342203965320554522noreply@blogger.com