jesusalright4me;13075887]^^This^^ I once had a discussion with my philosophy professor about this (who I believe was an agnostic or an atheist, though he never revealed directly his faith). He was telling me that he wasn’t too happy with the movie “God’s Not Dead” because of the way it portrays the philosophy professor as an angry atheist out to destroy Christianity. As a result, he began to see many religious students not looking at philosophy professors too kindly because they assumed they were all out to get them.
Your philosophy professor should be the first to respect another’s opinion, especially when his profession deals within the grey areas of logic and reason. Diversity of views is a compliment to philosophical thinkers and should be respected in the arena of freedom.
Going back to the subject of Islam, it is the same thing. NEVER judge the majority based on the minority. I think that many Catholics do this partly because they want to demonize those who hold incorrect beliefs on God. Demonizing, is never the solution, however, and it is unfair and isn’t very Christ like either. Interfaith religious dialogue in a peaceful manner is the way to go about understanding each other:thumbsup
I disagree with the OP’s view and Catholics wanting to demonize those with “incorrect beliefs on God”. Our present is a reflection of the past in Catholic/Muslim relations which is a huge subject of discussion that deals with the prophetic conquest of Islam over all the world which is unending.
The Catholic faith armies who were outnumbered both in land and sea defeated the invading Muslim Turks from conquering the West and Europe in the late and early 14th and 15th centuries. This is the status quo we find ourselves in today.
Islam has made a new prophetic conquest to conquer Western Christendom; “by your liberal laws Islam will conquer you”. Muslims have been migrating and integrating Western free societies since their defeat, and is outnumbering Christians once again, due to our abortion and anti Christian laws ( for one example; gay marriage which does not produce natural offspring) and social standards of living that are foreign to Christianity’s standards of living.
Your “interfaith religious dialogue” is key to the discussion here. Presently and in recent history the Pope’s have been making the effort in interfaith religious dialogue, in fact Vatican II documents address this work in progress with all different religious faith’s.
Thus officially the Catholic Church is the one making the efforts towards peaceful dialogue with Muslims.
How does one have a dialogue with Muslims, when Islam has political sanctions against Christians living within Muslim borders and civil penalty laws against Christian bibles and the exposition of Christianity in the public.
A Muslim dialogue speaks from three fronts; 1) religious 2) political 3) militarily. A Catholic does not speak from these three fronts only from the religious point of view, which can make the dialogue difficult, when the Catholic is at a disadvantage.
It can be difficult to understand from which tongue the Muslim has engaged his/her dialogue on interfaith religious subjects because the religion of Islam mixes religion with politics and secular government laws, when it was said, “religion is the opium of the people”.
I believe “American Catholics not like Muslims” is a bad choice of words. Americans are hated and sought after by those identifying themselves as Muslims. I believe the correct word to be used by any American should be cautious towards unknown Muslims. For the simple fact that Islam practices a virtue of deception towards non-Muslims, thus terror can strike at any time by an unsuspecting Muslim. We have to remember we are still at war with those who identify themselves as true Muslims and faithful servants to their prophet and the Koran, while some peaceful loving Muslims are considered apostates to Islam by their same Muslim counterparts.
So to which Muslim does one have an interfaith dialogue? When the Pope sent an envoy to the middle east to conduct an interfaith dialogue with Muslims, the envoy was sent away by Islam’s religious leaders proclaiming publicly “by your liberal laws, Islam will conquer you”
