Jan Matthys Quotes

Anabaptists from all over Germany and Europe had been called with their arms to Munster, where whey gained control of the city, and then by force began to expel all the Catholics and pressure the Protests to be re-Baptized and join the Anabaptists. Some did to keep their homes and property. However Mathias, with this quotation, became as bad as the Roman Catholic Church had been regarding the killing of dissenters. His logic is exactly the same as that of the Catholics and the Protestants who were killing the Anabaptists.

She was running for the United States Senate. God must have chosen her opponent as she lost.

This statement is eerily similar to the statements of some of the Islamic fanatic fundamentalists 80 years later.

The Manual was found by the Manchester (England) Metropolitan Police during a search of an Al Qaida member's home. In Islam there is virtually no difference between religion and civil life.

He had whipped the crowd up into a feverish pitch until someone rushed the bound and tied blacksmith and stabbed him to death. He had only criticized Mathias for being too harsh and stern a leader.

Stephani had written a legal analysis of the 1555 “Peace of Augsburg” and used the phrase of the quotation to describe the most basic and important legal agreement. It was that the recognized religion of a nation would be determined by the religion of the king or other ruler. Prior, Protestant and Catholic nations were constantly warring with each other and supporting insurrections in another country of its co-religionists and often warring with the other country where some towns were mostly Protestant and others, mostly Catholic. The treaty which dealt with Europe initially allowed Catholic citizens of a nation ruled by a Protestant to emigrate to a Catholic nation and the reverse. Those who chose to remain, would therefore be a minority of the country where their king was of a different faith. This principle is one of the reasons that English law requires the King or Queen to be the Head of the Church of England. In effect the Protestants controlling England at the time guaranteed that the sovereign was a Protestant and could not have a Catholic spouse in line for the throne. This then guaranteed that England would remain Protestant since the ruler was Protestant. Other European nations, Protestant and Catholic, had similar schemes and many still have them to this day.

Most Muslims believe that Islam is a religion of peace. A small minority of fanatic extremists believe as Al-Buti does. They are the ones who are the most dangerous for all.

Toleration is a relative term. The Muslim Moors made Christians (and Jews) pay a special tax. At times they were forced to wear special clothing so that they could be readily identified. And they could not build churches larger or taller than the smallest mosque in the community. At times, their occupations were restricted but at other times Christians and Jews were appointed to the highest positions like Vizier. The Inquisition, in contrast, forced all Muslims (and Jews) to leave the country without any of their property or money or be tortured and killed—usually by burning at the stake unless of course that they converted to Christianity.

Most of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Yugoslavia did not oppose the Nazis in WWII. Many in Croatia actually supported the Concentration Camp that the Croat Military Allies of Germany ran, The only major difference between that concentration camp and the Nazi run camps were that instead of murdering Jews en masse, the Croats murdered Serbs en masse. The Bishops were silent. After the Nazis were defeated, the Catholic Bishops attacked the pro Communist Yugoslav government run by Tito. To Tito the hypocrisy was palpable.

In the early stages of Islam, Muhammad had hoped to convert the Jews and others on the Arabian Peninsula. When they refused to be converted, he warred against them usually killing the men, and taking the women and children as slaves. The result was that non-believing tribes were “cleansed” from the Arabian Peninsula. The Muslims at the time preferred children as slaves. For then they could convert the children against their will. Adults in Islam must accept Islam in order to convert. Children are regarded as having no such maturity of decision making and therefore opposition to conversion may be ignored and they may be forced. Critics of Islam and those who argue that Islam is at odds with all other religions point to this quotation. They claim that it is the only religion whose founder and fundamental scriptures demand war against others for no other reason than that they believe in a different religion. The Catholic Church during the Crusades and the Inquisition had a similar philosophy as did Christian missionaries colonizing Africa later. One difference is that most Christians today repudiate the doctrine as against the true spirit and teachings of Christ and view it as historical error, while very few modern Muslims repudiate this quotation of the Prophet.

The Inquisition had tortured De Molay and his fellow Templars forcing them to confess to blasphemy, homosexuality and other capital crimes. Finally De Molay was sentenced to be burned at the stake. At the last moment he confessed to having lied under torture.

Saint Benedicta was born and brought up as a Jew and converted to Catholicism. She and a few other leading German Catholics spoke out forcefully against Nazi crimes and immoralities. She was one of the few German Catholics who wanted the Pope to act more forcefully in Germany.