[AskStPhilomena]

More modernist psychobabble from a bishop in full communion with the Holy See.

[Huntress]

Where does the term "Abba Father" come from? I've never heard of that.

[Steel Wolf]

If you accept monotheism, the belief that there is only one God, you realize that Yahweh, The God of Israel, Abba Father, the God of Jesus Christ and Allah the God of Islam is the SAME God, since there is only one God.

If you accept monotheism, then you believe that there is only one supreme being. You could worship the sun, a piece of carved rock, your toaster, a golden calf, your cult leader, or Gaia, the spirit of the earth.

Only worshiping one pagan symbol does not make you a default believer in God.

[bikepacker67]

The Jews, and the Christians believe in the same God.

The Moose-Limbs adhere to the rantings of a schizophrenic child molester

[gopwinsin04]

Oy vey...

[Lazamataz]

We all worship allah!

Incorrect.

We all live in a yellow submarine!

[AskStPhilomena]

And it's not just North America folks....
http://www.catholicvoice.com.au/169/n_04.htm

[FreedomSurge]

This is evil at work.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Is this enough to add Bishop Braxton to the heretical bishops list (Mahony, McGrath, etc, etc)?

[AskStPhilomena]

Thanks to Pope John Paul 2's "spirit of Assisi", ecumania/indifferentism is now everywhere....
http://www.cjonline.com/photos/galleries/011403_inauguration/03.shtml

[Salman]

Well OK up to a point. "Allah" is the Arabic word for God, and Arabic speaking Christians called Him that long before the year 622 of the Christian era, and still do.

But the Muslim "Allah" does not exist. Or perhaps is the devil.

[Salman]

Well OK up to a point. "Allah" is the Arabic word for God, and Arabic speaking Christians called Him that long before the year 622 of the Christian era, and still do.

But the Muslim "Allah" does not exist. Or perhaps is the devil.

[dufekin]

Some obvious errors of fact pepper this article. "A small (3%) group called Shiite Muslims believes that only direct descendants of Muhammad can be Muslims." Wrong on both counts; Shiites comprise roughly 9% of all Muslims, not 3%, and they differ from the majority Sunni on the matter of the role of the descendants of Muhammad in the succession to the caliphate, NOT on the eligibility of certain persons to convert to Islam.

Were it not for these glaring errors, I would wonder whether the Diocese of Lake Charles was really not an Islamic organization.

[counterpunch]

With thinking like this, we all will be worshiping allah.

[Dallas59]

When does the Church instruct us on how to behead?...Since we're all one happy family...

[daylate-dollarshort]

Sorry, Allah is a false prophet. I was born and raised Catholic and this Bishop is a heretic.

The God I worship would not reward the act of killing another human with 72 virgins. The God that I worship would not reward men practicing pedestry. The God that I worship would not reward those who revel in the murder of the weak. The God that I worship would not reward those that would murder their brother, the children of Abraham.

This "Bishop" does not not represent the dogma of the Catholic Church that I was raised in.

[Esther Ruth]

"More modernist psychobabble from a bishop in full communion with the Holy See."

Do any Catholics consider this man to possibly be not just confused or a wee bit mislead by psychobabble .. but instead could he be a wolf in sheep clothing? They do exist, wolves to exist, and they are mixed in with the sheep. Maybe he did not start out looking like and sounding like a wolf but became one slowly or suddenly?

[infidel29]

...and moreover, heaven and hell are the same place. You see, because of "free will", if a person does "good" s/he will go to heaven and if s/he does "evil" they will go to hell. If then, a person does "evil" knowing full well they will go to "hell" for it, then one could surmize that hell is the place they wanted to go in the first place. If this is true, then hell would be a heaven to them. Would it not, then, be a punishment for them to go to heaven?

By this theory, there is a hellheaven for evildoers who do so by free will and desire. And, alternately there is a heavenhell for those who are to be truly punished for their evil deeds by going to the place they did not intend through their free willing actions. So by the application of the associative property of mathematics, AB = BA, would not a hellheaven = a heavenhell?

[OPS4]

Jesus is God and the moslems deny this, therefore they cannot claim to be in his service. They are killing the faithful in Jesus Christ, and that is not following the golden rule or the ten commandments.

This is hogwash!

OPs4 God BLess America!

[DBeers]

We all worship allah!

NO -I don't.

Nor do I buy an argument that presupposes we know more of God than what is divinely revealed.

[stripes1776]

If you accept monotheism, the belief that there is only one God, you realize that Yahweh...

For the early Church, Yahweh was Christ before his birth from a vrigin. And for many Christians, it makes no sense to talk of the One God without at the some time talking of the Triune God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Christianity isn't Unitarianism. The God of Christianity is not the God of Islam.