Father, this is the memory the gate was built to keep, and the memory the present See would rather file under immigration.
Modena did not invent the man in the fresco. He painted what Bologna already knew. Dante had already put Muhammad among the sowers of schism, split, because the wound he opened was a wound in the body. The raids had been on Sicily since the generation after the prophet’s death. Palermo fell in 831. In 846 the jihad reached Rome, took St. Peter’s, and danced around the altar. Leo IV did not answer with a dialogue commission. He built the walls that still carry his name. A pope who cannot hear that, standing inside those walls, has forgotten the reason the stone is there.
The same memory runs east. Constantinople held in 678 and held in 718, and those holds were the holds that kept Europe from being a dhimmi shore. It fell in 1453 because the Christian house was divided, and some in the city preferred the sultan’s rule to Rome’s. Hagia Sophia was stripped, the altar taken for the prayer, the icons gouged. Erdoğan cited Mehmet’s charter when he made it a mosque again and pronounced the curse on anyone who reverses it. The answer from Rome was sorrow in six words. Sorrow is not a garrison.
Three battles mark the line that was held: Tours, Lepanto, Vienna. Muslims remember the day before Vienna. Bin Laden chose September 11. The magazines still name Rome. The hadith still blesses the army that takes Constantinople. Ceuta and Melilla have been named for years as the unfinished gate. On July 30 that gate was used. Tens of thousands across Tarajal, the takbir in the streets, the cover called migration, the coordinators still inside. A horse is a horse. The wrapping does not change the animal.
My own people learned this before the Latin Church finished her argument. Mount Lebanon was not a misunderstanding. The sword and the famine were the policy. The Maronite war in our own lifetime killed on the order of 150,000 and drove the better part of a million, mostly Christians, out of the land. To be told that the fear is generated by men who oppose immigration is to be told that the ledger is a phobia. The kuffar are not a mood. They are the name the book gives to those who will not call the prophet final, and who will not surrender the Son.
Christians forget. The other side does not. Dante and Modena were not bigots ahead of their time. They were men who had heard the chronicle and refused to keep quiet about the picture. The infidel is not ashamed of the name. He knows who he is, and he knows which gate he is keeping.
Oh what fun it will be under Sharia when the lovable muzzies have reached tipping point in our countries, let in by the useful idiots dripping with lovingkindness. That will not save them.
St John of Damascus and St Thomas Aquinas (both doctors of the church) viewed Islam as a heresy. Islam is a heresy, and if you identify as a Christian, you better be prepared to renounce and denounce a heresy.
Father, this is the memory the gate was built to keep, and the memory the present See would rather file under immigration.
Modena did not invent the man in the fresco. He painted what Bologna already knew. Dante had already put Muhammad among the sowers of schism, split, because the wound he opened was a wound in the body. The raids had been on Sicily since the generation after the prophet’s death. Palermo fell in 831. In 846 the jihad reached Rome, took St. Peter’s, and danced around the altar. Leo IV did not answer with a dialogue commission. He built the walls that still carry his name. A pope who cannot hear that, standing inside those walls, has forgotten the reason the stone is there.
The same memory runs east. Constantinople held in 678 and held in 718, and those holds were the holds that kept Europe from being a dhimmi shore. It fell in 1453 because the Christian house was divided, and some in the city preferred the sultan’s rule to Rome’s. Hagia Sophia was stripped, the altar taken for the prayer, the icons gouged. Erdoğan cited Mehmet’s charter when he made it a mosque again and pronounced the curse on anyone who reverses it. The answer from Rome was sorrow in six words. Sorrow is not a garrison.
Three battles mark the line that was held: Tours, Lepanto, Vienna. Muslims remember the day before Vienna. Bin Laden chose September 11. The magazines still name Rome. The hadith still blesses the army that takes Constantinople. Ceuta and Melilla have been named for years as the unfinished gate. On July 30 that gate was used. Tens of thousands across Tarajal, the takbir in the streets, the cover called migration, the coordinators still inside. A horse is a horse. The wrapping does not change the animal.
My own people learned this before the Latin Church finished her argument. Mount Lebanon was not a misunderstanding. The sword and the famine were the policy. The Maronite war in our own lifetime killed on the order of 150,000 and drove the better part of a million, mostly Christians, out of the land. To be told that the fear is generated by men who oppose immigration is to be told that the ledger is a phobia. The kuffar are not a mood. They are the name the book gives to those who will not call the prophet final, and who will not surrender the Son.
Christians forget. The other side does not. Dante and Modena were not bigots ahead of their time. They were men who had heard the chronicle and refused to keep quiet about the picture. The infidel is not ashamed of the name. He knows who he is, and he knows which gate he is keeping.
Semper Fi Brother and have a Blessed day Sir 🙏
Oh what fun it will be under Sharia when the lovable muzzies have reached tipping point in our countries, let in by the useful idiots dripping with lovingkindness. That will not save them.
As those who preferred Islam to Rome in 1453 were not spared. Idiots.
They are the first liquidated history has proven that, Semper Fi!!!
St John of Damascus and St Thomas Aquinas (both doctors of the church) viewed Islam as a heresy. Islam is a heresy, and if you identify as a Christian, you better be prepared to renounce and denounce a heresy.
The painting is correct
Pope Leo is not Christian. He has denied that Christ was the only pathway to God.