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   From: john_paul_ii@vatican.va   
      
   "The unforgiveable sins this earth must confront and overcome are   
    Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding.  The idea of every nation   
    should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and   
    princes should be seen for the devils they are.  The sins include   
    our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of   
    the spirit of God a divide."   
      
   Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)   
   2nd April 2005   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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   the whole world.   
      
   Who renders testimony to Mahomet? Himself. Jesus Christ desires His own   
   testimony to be as nothing.   
      
   The quality of witnesses necessitates their existence always and everywhere;   
   and he, miserable creature, is alone.   
      
   597. Against Mahomet.--The Koran is not more of Mahomet than the Gospel is   
   of Saint Matthew, for it is cited by many authors from age to age. Even its   
   very enemies, Celsus and Porphyry, never denied it.   
      
   The Koran says Saint Matthew was an honest man. Therefore Mahomet was a   
   false prophet for calling honest men wicked, or for not agreeing with what   
   they have said of Jesus Christ.   
      
   598. It is not by that which is obscure in Mahomet, and which may be   
   interpreted in a mysterious sense, that I would have him judged, but by what   
   is clear, as his paradise and the rest. In that he is ridiculous. And since   
   what is clear is ridiculous, it is not right to take his obscurities for   
   mysteries.   
      
   It is not the same with the Scripture. I agree that there are in it   
   obscurities as strange as those of Mahomet; but there are admirably clear   
   passages, and the prophecies are manifestly fulfilled. The cases are,   
   therefore, not on a par. We must not confound and put on one level things   
   which only resemble each other in their obscurity, and not in the clearness,   
   which requires us to reverence the obscurities.   
      
   599. The difference between Jesus Christ and Mahomet.--Mahomet was not   
   foretold; Jesus Christ was foretold.   
      
   Mahomet slew; Jesus Christ caused His own to be slain.   
      
   Mahomet forbade reading; the Apostles ordered reading.   
      
   In fact, the two are so opposed that, if Mahom   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)