Question: You have serious differences with Karl Keating, the head of Catholic Answers [but it looks ...

Question: You have serious differences with Karl Keating, the head of Catholic Answers. I’ve seen the video of your debate in Detroit. But he made a special report titled, Endless Jihad: The Truth About Islam and Violence, to “Expose the Little-known Threat Posed by Radical Islamists.” The six-page ad agrees with you about Islam. Shouldn’t we join forces with Roman Catholics against Islam?

Answer: No. The ad uses the terms “militant/militants,” “radical Islam/radical Islamists,” “extremist/extremists,” “fanatics,” etc., more than 20 times. He fails to point out that Islam itself is the problem, not its extremists or fanatics. That fact is crucial in combating this violent, anti-Christ, anti-God, anti-Semitic, and anti-Israel religion. We must expose the truth of what Islam really is, has done, and continues to do. We must counter Islam with the truth of God concerning salvation for all in Christ alone.

Yet Vatican II recognizes Islam as a valid religion that worships and serves the true God of the Bible. How can Islam be faulted, if Muslims worship the one true God? Keating quotes John Paul II in Crossing the Threshold of Hope, blaming the denial of religious freedom upon “fundamentalist movements.” The Pope meant evangelicals, but Keating inserts “Muslim” between “fundamentalist” and “movements” to make it appear that the Pope had Muslims in mind, which was not true.

The Roman Catholic Church lacks the moral basis to judge Islam, having slaughtered millions of true Christians and Muslims as Islam has slaughtered non-Muslims by the millions. The gospel alone can rescue Muslims—yet Rome adds so much to it (the Mass, holy water, relics, prayers to Mary, purgatory, transubstantiation, infant baptism, etc.) that we can no more partner with them than with Mormons, Muslims, Hindus, et al.