Not Peace But a Sword: the Great Chasm Between Christianity And Islam
“They’re pro-life. They’re uncompromising. What’s not to like? Many faithful Catholics today look at Muslims and see a formidable friend and ally in the struggle against secularist efforts to drive religion out of the public square and erase all vestiges of natural law from positive law. The Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, tells Muslims that “thou wilt surely find the nearest of them in love to the believers are those who say ‘We are Christians’; that, because some of them are priests and monks,... and they wax not proud” (5:82).1 And some Christians have been anxious to show that same love to the believers in Islam. The foremost popular exponent of this view is the Catholic philosopher and apologist Peter Kreeft, who engagingly articulated the need for this alliance in his 1996 book Ecumenical Jihad and reiterated and expanded upon his call for it in his 2010 follow-up, Between Allah and Jesus.“The age of religious wars is ending,” proclaimed Kreeft five years before the September 11 attacks.MoreLess
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