Little Green Footballs has a link up about a Dutch Catholic Bishop suggesting Christians should pray to Allah: Dutch Catholic Bishop: Christians Should Pray to Allah. The full article is available here: Let’s call God Allah.

The Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens, wants people to start calling God Allah. He says the Netherlands should look to Indonesia, where the Christian churches already pray to Allah. It is also common in the Arab world: Christian and Muslim Arabs use the words God and Allah interchangeably.

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. Let’s all start blaspheming God’s name, I’m sure that won’t have any negative repercussions. I’ll probably take a lot of flak for saying this but I just don’t believe that the majority of Catholic leaders are Christians. For that matter I don’t believe a majority of those who call themselves Catholics are Christians either. Catholicism perverts the belief in Jesus Christ by minimizing His role in the Church. Praying to Mary, atoning for your sins through your priest, and setting up a head of the Church in the form of the Pope are just a few of the things that lead me to believe that Catholicism is leading people astray from Christ, not bringing them to Him. But hey, go ahead and start praying to Allah… I actually don’t see where that will make much of a difference eternally for you anyway.

Update:

Didn’t want to leave the post the way it was without adding a little depth. The reason for my skepticism regarding the Catholic faith is found in John 14:6:

Jhn 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

It may seem an over simplification to use one verse to dispel the rituals of an entire religion but I believe that most things really are simple, it is human nature to complicate things. In this passage it is clear that Christ is our Savior, there is no alternative to salvation without Him. No matter how many Hail Mary’s one does or how closely one follows the rulings of the Vatican, one can not truly be a Christian without Christ as the sole focus. If you’re skeptical or angry over my conclusion here, please click the link above that will take you to the Blue Letter Bible. Read through John chapter 14, all of the book of John, or the entire Bible to find out if I am wrong in saying the rituals of the Catholic Church that I have pointed out are not based in Scripture.

A few days ago I wrote about the proposed increase to the Federal gas tax, Maintain roads? Let?s raise taxes!!. Today, here’s the most absurd tax I have ever heard of from CBS2Chicago.com, Alderman Wants To Tax Bottled Water:

As CBS 2’s Kristyn Hartman reports, Ald. George Cardenas (12th) wants to slap a tax of up to 25 cents on the cost of every bottle to help close a $217 million budget gap.

“People enjoy jogging or driving with a bottle of water. There’s a cost associated with this behavior. You have to pay for it,” said Cardenas, one of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s staunchest City Council supporters.

Luckily this is a local Chicago issue but I believe it is a good example of the tax everything mentality that more and more politicians seem to have. By the way Mr. Cardenas, we do pay for the “behavior” of having a bottle of water and I am also sure that the city of Chicago gets a small cut in the form of sales tax from our “behavior”.

While this seems pretty crazy, we really have no one to blame for politicians finding more and more things to tax except ourselves. When a majority of the population thinks a tobacco tax is justified because they view the product being taxed as “evil or bad” this kind of crap happens. There will always be someone out there who doesn’t like a product for whatever reason and a politician will view that product as a new revenue stream. You’ve been hoodwinked America, you let the cat out of the bag and now there is no turning back.