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Yes, that was very History Channel of Solo.
What was? Posting actual facts about the event you claim as "divine providence"?
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Christ and His Church are Good (true and beautiful as a well) and Islam is an Evil heresy at best.
Agree. Unlike what we saw throughout the history of the RCC though, I don't believe murdering heretics looks remotely like the nonviolent, self-sacrificial love of Christ we are called to imitate.
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Divine Providence played a big hand in its defeat no matter the numbers and at Lepanto, it was aided and abetted by Our Lady's intercession of near ubiquitous prayer.
You have absolutely no way of supporting this claim though. You're basically saying "it's divine providence because I say it is". They had a 2.5-to-1 gun advantage, and the minuscule disadvantage in # of vessels was mitigated by having larger ships w/ more guns.
The "Holy" League absolutely should have won the battle, as they had the advantage.
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Would be nice to live in an Era where a universal call to prayer was answered in Unity... that was Christendom.
If you are talking about "Christendom" as the conflation of church and state, I'm glad we are coming upon a post-Christendom world. No greater damage has been done to the church than the sanctification of state violence in the name of God.
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Again, History and Providence prove that the Holy Roman Church must lead the fight - spiritual and perhaps otherwise - against Islam.
Well, apparently we can just call anything we want "divine providence", so that seems like a silly claim. If you are talking about a physical, murderous fight though, then Satan thanks you and your church. If you are talking about fighting our enemy (Satan) using weapons that aren't "flesh and blood", such as Paul discusses in Ephesians, then the church (not just the RCC) absolutely must lead the way. But, we have to see the real enemy (it's not Muslims) and put on the armor of God (none of them have anything to do w/ physical warfare) and fight evil as Christ displayed for us....nonviolent, self-sacrificial love of enemies.
**Note: please do not take my comments above as anti-Catholicism. There are many things I love about Catholicism, but there are some that appear to have an idolatrous view of the RCC, which leads to justifying all sorts of evil. That's not something we only see in the RCC though. I grew up in a similar mindset with regards to that, albeit in a different denomination.