The Vatican Answer to the Muslim Scholars: We Have Much to Discuss.
Last week, almost 200 Muslims scholars sent out a letter to the Vatican and other leaders of Christian religions asking for Christianity and Islam to “come together”. The letter outlined some pretty specific ways that Christians could come together with Islam and seemed a bit short on ways that Islam could draw closer to Christians.
Well, today, the Vatican, in the person of their top official for Islam, has a few ideas for them.
Those ideas, and mine, after the jump.
His interview, coming after mostly positive comments by other Catholic Islam experts, signaled the world’s largest Christian church wanted a serious dialogue with Muslims that did not avoid some fundamental issues dividing the religions.
“Muslims do not accept that one can discuss the Koran in depth, because they say it was written by dictation from God,” Tauran said. “With such an absolute interpretation, it is difficult to discuss the contents of faith.”
The fact that Muslims can build mosques in Europe while many Islamic states limit or ban church building cannot be ignored, he said. “In a dialogue among believers, it is fundamental to say what is good for one is good for the other,” he said.
Getting Muslims to actually talk about their religion, especially the obvious divide between those Muslims who seem to like the “convert by the sword” and “kill all Jews” parts and the ones who like the “We’ll practice our religion and let you be free to practice yours”. Just getting that concession from the authors of the original letter would be a major victory against the Islamists. Then, we can work on the prohibitions against building any church but a mosque in many Muslim countries and the growth of Wahabist Islam as a form of government that is being spread by Islamist petrodollars.
I think we’ll all find that if Muslims will give a little, they’ll find that we Christians are already there waiting for them.
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