During the middle of this month, Catholic Church head Pope Francis made a statement while visiting the Philippines by default expressing solidarity with Islamic terrorists who murdered the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and others at the magazine’s headquarters in Paris, France. Business Insider quotes Francis as having said:

“There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others,” he said. “They are provocateurs. And what happens to them is what would happen to Dr. Gasparri if he says a curse word against my mother. There is a limit.”

After making this statement it caused an uproar resulting in Francis having to conduct damage control with help from from the church’s allies in the media. Despite his denials, Francis’ remarks are an expression of solidarity with the Islamic terrorists who slaughtered innocent lives at Charlie Hebdo‘s offices taken earlier this month. What Francis said is territory already covered by Catholic League head Bill Donohoe who stated shortly after the shootings:

“What unites Muslims in their anger against Charlie Hebdo is the vulgar manner in which Muhammad has been portrayed. What they object to is being intentionally insulted over the course of many years. On this aspect, I am in total agreement with them.”

Fortunately Francis and Donohoe later rejected the notion that they supported the murders and condemned them, but we have yet to see any apologies issued from either church leader. When their statements were made it was reminiscent of when the Vatican’s official newspaper (L’Osservatore Romano), Anglican Archbishop Robert Runcie as well as Jewish rabbis Avraham Shapira and Immanuel Jakobovits condemned Salman Rudie’s book The Satanic Verses. The book earned Rushdie (who was raised in a Muslim household) a fatwa of death from Iranian Shi’ite Ayatollah Khomeini. By default all four spiritual leaders sided with Khomeini in their denunciation of Salman Rushdie whose only crime was to write a book in order to make cultural statements using Mohammed and Islam as the vehicle to do so.

Most recently, Germany’s Catholic Cologne Cathedral darkened its lights as a form of protest against the PEGIDA movement that the church there deems as xenophobic which is not true. PEGIDA has elements that are xenophobic but on the whole is anti-Islamization. The group seeks to prevent European countries, like Germany and France, from adopting Sharia Law and becoming defacto Islamic states. It is very telling that PEGIDA is raising the ire of European politicians since, like the Catholic Church, they instead act like dhimmis demanding Europeans to accept Islam.

Evangelical and other conservative Christian denominations are right in their criticisms of Islam, they also stand in solidarity with their Catholic bretheren but in a different way. Consider that Pope Francis has made statements and will soon issue an encyclical embracing man-made global warming. Despite their recent rejection of environmentalism, at one point evangelical Christians bought into green philosophy.

The reason for this is the creed of altruistic sacrifice that religion is all about. Just like environmentalists seek to sacrifice mankind on the altar of their neo-pagan mother goddess of nature, Gaia, religion calls for mankind to be sacrificed to the greater glory of God or the church. Religion and environmentalism all stand in vile solidarity in their quest to revert civilization to another Dark Ages by subjecting people to their collective will.