Muslim Martyrs and Catholic Martyrs

We hear a lot about martyrs and martyrdom these days, yet normally from the perspective of Islam and often in the context of Islamic terrorism. Yet it is often forgotten that martyrdom is a Catholic belief that Muslims appropriated and then redefined.
It’s important to understand that Islam developed approximately 700 years after the establishment of [...]

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Jesus Christ, Buddha, Muhammad, Socrates and True Religion

The new secular ideology that Pope Benedict XVI termed the “dictatorship of relativism,” demands that we recognize all religions as equally valid. And if indeed there is  no discernible difference in absolute truth between Catholicism and Tibetan Buddhism, for example,  then Jesus Christ becomes a “wise man”, like Buddha, Muhammad and Socrates were wise men. [...]

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