The only reason there are so many saints is to provide us with more names to use to swear, after a while useing the same saints names becomes redundant.
Mother Theresa was canonised and is now a Saint and she did not fight the Muslims
It was not the Pope Francis who said that the reason they were being canonised was because they oposed the Muslims, this was said by a "stupid" reporter who wanted to cause exactly what is happening, an uproar.
Those people took a stand against an invading force, I don´t care what they were, they could have been Martians for all I care. So Ottoman forces were at war against the forces of Naples and thus there were casualties.
Now lets turn it around, if it were Ottomans who had been beheaded for upholding their faith and not converting to catholisism how would it have been remebered??
All religions are guilty of atrouceties in the name of their religion.
So if we want to canonise a few martyrs it´s our perogative... I figure after being staked, burned, drawn and quartered, fed to the lions or what other stupid unimaginable torture because we upheld our religion, we can have as many saints as we want.
Why is it ok for a muslim to be proud and uphold their religion but it is not ok for christians?
Catholic Pope sold the Orthodox Christians of Byzantium to the mercy Ottoman Turks.
He did not move a finger to save the Orthodox population; in fact he provided technical assistance to Ottomans in construction of Rumelihisar - to bar free passage through the Bosphorus - and a devout Catholic Mr. Urban was assigned to produce the largest cannons of its time, for use by Mehmed II armies.
Mehmed II did eventually conquer Istanbul (he had to, to be able to set up the Empire he dreamed), but did not massacre the ortjhodox population of the city as the Pope expected. Mehmet spared the city and its population, because he now considered himself to be not only the Ottoman Sultan, but also the rightful owner of East Roman Empire throne.
Pope was disappointed. Despite previous promises that Mehmet II would be recognized, by Vatican as the East Roman Emperor, the Pope forgot his promises.
Ottoman Armies were ordered to teach the Pope a lesson. Unaware Italians, now made saints, faced Ottomans to protect their Pope and lost their lives.
Mehmet was poisoned in his own palace by unknown (!) advesaries. Military operation into Italy was cancelled.
Vatican is now paying a historical debt !
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