What Catholics can learn from the Quran (Albany diocesan official)

RNS ^ | August 20, 2012 | Kathleen K. Duff

[RichInOC]

I think folks can learn from the Koran, or any scriptures from other religions than their own, without adopting them as holy writ.

[Cronos]

No one accepts their claim these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, -- they say they do, no one comments on whether or not that is correct.

the mohammedans assert that God is One, that He is merciful, and that He will judge mankind. If so, they are correct in so asserting. as AB said -- the worship only one god. No comments on that god being our God or not. Even satanists are monotheists -- their "god" is one...

I cannot do so for the Koran, or it's prophet... and I will lay odds that you will not be able to either. -- nobody does, that's why we in orthodoxy have been fighting Islam for 2000 years while during the crimean war the Anglicans, Evangelicals and Baptists in the UK stated that "the Mohammedan has beliefs similar to ours unlike the paganism of the Orthodox" and other said "the Turk has a quiet, reflective religion. The Turk is a Unitarian" (Read the book on the Crimea by Orlando Figes) -- this was due to the various non-orthodoxy groups being separated from Islam geographically by the Orthodox and Catholic nations who faced the brunt of these attacks. It was ignorance yes.

[Cronos]

I disagree that they profess the faith of Abraham, but to deny that they CLAIM to profess it is folly.

Exactly.

[Cronos]

I disagree that they profess the faith of Abraham, but to deny that they CLAIM to profess it is folly.

I would say that while the mohammedans acknowledge and worship one singular unique god, they appear to misunderstand him so grossly as to render him unrecognizable. They worship falsely. Furthermore, that to the extent their misunderstanding of the deity comes from a non-human source, that source is NOT God. They did not get their ideas regarding God from YHWH. They got their ideas from some other entity. Whatever it was that was whispering in Mad Mo's ear, it wasn't YHWH.

Exactly.