Why Benedict XVI did not want to fall silent or backpedal (Magister)

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by Sandro Magister

The masterful lecture that the pope-theologian delivered at the University of Regensburg really did send shivers throughout the world. Because what Benedict XVI said there is just what happened afterward. The pope explained the distance that runs between the Christian God, who is love, immolated in Jesus on the cross, but also “Logos,” reason; and the God worshipped by Islam, so transcendent and sublime that he is not bound by anything, not even by that rational assertion according to which there must not be “any coercion in matters of faith.”

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the God worshipped by Islam, so transcendent and sublime that he is not bound by anything
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Hmmm. Is it reasonable to ask then that if the Islamic Allah need not be consistent or understood by any human framework, how does one distinguish between the actions of Allah and Satan?
 
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