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The war in Iraq and the situation in the Holy Land are mortal blows for the Christians in the Middle East. Willing or unwilling, we end up being branded as a fifth column of the West. But the strength of fundamentalism lies in the weakness of the so-called Christian West. Fundamentalism is a sickness that gets loose and takes root because of the void of the Western modernity, that uses Christianity only as ideological cover

— Gregory III Laham

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The war in Iraq and the situation in the Holy Land are mortal blows for the Christians in the Middle East. Willing or unwilling, we end up being branded as a fifth column of the West. But the strength of fundamentalism lies in the weakness of the so-called Christian West. Fundamentalism is a sickness that gets loose and takes root because of the void of the Western modernity, that uses Christianity only as ideological cover" in the context of "We are the Church of Islam (2005) 30 Days" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Gregory III Laham

About Gregory III Laham

Gregory III Laham (15 December 1933 –) is a Syrian prelate of the Melkite Catholic Church who served as the Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Antioch.