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He Warned Us About Islam Over 750 Years Ago… It’s Time To Listen
Conservative Tribune ^

Posted on 02/14/2016 6:47:27 AM PST by SandRat

He Warned Us About Islam Over 750 Years Ago… It’s Time To Listen.

St. Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the most revered philosophers and theologians of any era. A 13th-century Dominican friar, his works include the “Summa Theologica” and several groundbreaking commentaries on the works of Aristotle.

Over 750 years ago, he also had some prescient words about the spread of Islam, shared via Breitbart. In his work “Summa Contra Gentiles” — in which he argued for the truth of Christianity against other religions — he blasted Islam as a carnal, brutal religion which seemed to place earthly pleasures above spiritual awakening.

Christianity, Aquinas pointed out, spread through the miracles of Jesus Christ and his followers. Islam, on the other hand, spread through more worldly means, such as a fulfillment of the flesh.

Lessons”

Muhammad “seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us,” Aquinas wrote. “His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure.”

Needless to say, that didn’t lead to the most pious sort of converts.

“In all this, as is not unexpected, he was obeyed by carnal men,” Aquinas wrote. “As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.”

That’s why, according to Thomas Aquinas, “no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning.”

The Prophet Muhammad.

Who, then, spread the word of Islam? This may sound familiar to you.

“Mohammad said that he was sent in the power of his arms,” Aquinas wrote, “which are signs not lacking even to robbers and tyrants.”

Muslims “were brutal men and desert wanderers, utterly ignorant of all divine teaching, through whose numbers Muhammad forced others to become his followers by the violence of his arms,” Aquinas wrote.

Aquinas also pointed out that very little of Islam was new or particular to the religion; the majority of the Quran was borrowed from Christianity and the world of mythology, with just enough added to make it an attractive faith for the worldly and greedy, Aquinas wrote. However, to Christians, Muhammad’s work “perverts almost all the testimonies of the Old and New Testaments by making them into fabrications of his own, as can be seen by anyone who examines his law,” Aquinas wrote.

Aquinas also engaged in a little bit of dry, 13th-century humor about Muhammad, saying that it was “a shrewd decision on his part to forbid his followers to read the Old and New Testaments, lest these books convict him of falsity.”

“It is thus clear that those who place any faith in his words believe foolishly,” he concluded.

Keep in mind that Thomas Aquinas lived closer to Muhammad’s time in the seventh century than to our time, yet all of what he said about Islam still rings true.


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; General Discusssion; History; Islam
KEYWORDS: aquinas; churchhistory; globaljihad; muslimworld

1 posted on 02/14/2016 6:47:27 AM PST by SandRat
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To: Kathy in Alaska; HiJinx; LUV W

Spreas the Word. PLEASE.


2 posted on 02/14/2016 6:51:13 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

As a graduate of a Dominican education I can attest to their reverence and admiration for St. Thomas Aquinas.


3 posted on 02/14/2016 6:51:18 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: SandRat

Here is an awesome 4 minute history lesson I found today: Jefferson and Adams on Islam, and why they had Korans.

“David Barton demolishes Obama’s ‘Islam is a religion of peace’.”

https://www.facebook.com/libtardmedia/videos/1657918041092213/?pnref=story


4 posted on 02/14/2016 6:54:17 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: SandRat

Same then as now. People never listen to the warnings. They just plain don’t listen. Remember how many were all oooooh, OBL is soooooo tall, dark and handsome! Then it was the Boston bomber is soooooo cute and got his picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone! Don’t know if they were controlled by PC as we are which gave us Ft. Hood’s Hasan, San Bernardino’s shooters and The Terrorist in Chief but America is its last days from it.


5 posted on 02/14/2016 7:07:08 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: SandRat
I like Churchill's comments on Islam as well...

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome."

A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill, "The River War", in which he describes Muslims he apparently observed during Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan

6 posted on 02/14/2016 7:26:55 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: SandRat
Aquinas blasted Islam as a carnal, brutal religion which seemed to place earthly pleasures above spiritual awakening.

Excellent synopsis. Mohammedism is all about the flesh, Christianity is all about the Spirit.

7 posted on 02/14/2016 7:30:18 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: SandRat

Interesting. Thanks for posting.


8 posted on 02/14/2016 7:52:26 AM PST by PGalt
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To: SandRat

Many pre-Vatican II popes and saints warnd us and spoke the truth about Islam and Mohammedans.


9 posted on 02/14/2016 9:14:06 AM PST by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks for posting that very informative.


10 posted on 02/14/2016 12:38:35 PM PST by StoneWall Brigade (Vote Tom Hoefling of America's Party for President the only person to restore the Republic)
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To: SandRat

We were warned long before this.

1 John 2:22 King James Version (KJV)

22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:2-3 King James Version (KJV)

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.


11 posted on 02/14/2016 3:08:49 PM PST by mrobisr (If you don't take care of your Bride how do you ever expect Jesus to let you take care of his Bride?)
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To: SandRat

”” ” ””” ” ” ” ”” ” ” ””” ” ””

How about FR fix this. What a joke


12 posted on 02/14/2016 3:13:41 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: SandRat

Seems like a “religion” that liberal males would embrace. Meanwhile, Hillary has the Muslim vote locked up.


13 posted on 02/14/2016 5:02:27 PM PST by Does so (Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
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To: SandRat

I lile this quote:

“That’s why, according to Thomas Aquinas, “no wise men, men trained in things divine and human, believed in him from the beginning.”


14 posted on 02/14/2016 5:40:58 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: SandRat

Islam is a war plan


15 posted on 02/16/2016 11:50:42 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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