Chris Pinto, June 28, 2013

WALID SHOEBAT: DEFENDER OF THE INQUISITION? Chris discusses a recent article published on the Walid Shoebat website titled, "Vatican as the Harlot of Babylon: Debunked." Anyone who knows Walid Shoebat is familiar with his story of being a former Muslim Brotherhood member turned Christian. But what sort of "Christian" is he? It is reported that his wife is Catholic, and it may be that his understanding of history has suffered as a result. In a previous article, Shoebat exalted the Catholic crusaders for fighting against the Turks when they tried to invade Europe, while denouncing Protestants for only defending the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, this new article from his son (Theodore Shoebat) continues the assault, proclaiming what can only be called the Romanist view of history. While the article might have been a discussion of the ministry's alternative view of prophecy, instead it chose to attack the great teachers of the Protestant Reformation, denouncing them as "heretics" and aligning them with false prophets, such as Joseph Smith and Muhammed. Then we learn that part of the history Shoebat relies on comes from a modern Catholic historian who defended the actions of the Inquisition, including having heretics burned at the stake.