“but I did ask him specifically if the Catholic Church viewed the God of Christianity, Judaism and Islam as the same and the answer was yes.”
Father Walsh was wrong. What? A layman who is not a priest criticizing the views of an educated cleric??? Outrageous. And yet I am convinced that one who utters what he pronounced could not have read the Qur’an and ahadith, or learned about the deeds and life of Muhammad. If he did, there is absolutely no way that Fr. Walsh could then say that “Allah” is the same Father of Jesus and Yahweh of the Jews. I just know if he did his homework he would agree with me. What his statement is indicative of is the state of the art, so to speak, in religious studies until fairly recently. As an undergraduate I took a couple of religious studies courses and the part about Islam was superficial. No dept at all, yet full of the same kind of pronouncements about it being one of the Abrahamic faiths.
“Allah” is NOT the same deity as ours. And so I plead with you to first get to know your Christian theology, the Bible, and some Jewish theology to boot – get some depth of understanding and then juxtapose that, along with (hopefully) some acquired spiritual wisdom and maturity, to what Muhammad’s sock puppet deity says, demands, sanctions, and allows. The contrast is STARK. They are not related.
No disrespect intended towards Fr. Walsh. Plus, I still have a soft spot for the Society of Jesus, since I did spend three years of my life after college aspiring to be one of them.
“Allah” is not related to the Christian God at all. No resemblance, not even familial. Everything “Allah” does and demands contradicts everything in our traditions. But the bottom line: “Allah” is a detestable hater, a scoundrel, and a wanton murderer.
Today, at frontpagemag.com, there is a well-written piece by Robert Spencer rebutting his insulting nemesis, Grover Norquist. Mr. Norquist never wastes an opportunity to label Robert a “hater of Muslims.”
And neither am I a hater of Muslims. I just tell the truth about the cult that enslaves them.
