Do all Religions have the same Heavenly Father?
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew asserts so, and quite a bit more along with it, as in these pronouncements: “We are all created by God and as such we are all brothers and sisters. We have the same heavenly Father, whatever we call him.” “God is but one, independently of the name we give him, Allah or Yahweh, and so on. God is one and we are his children.” In addition to these recent deceptive remarks, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has absurdly written (without any trace of irony) of a “dialogue of loving truth” with Islam, of Orthodoxy having for centuries “coexisted peacefully” with Islam. He also projects the chimera of an “interfaith commitment... still felt and lived by Greeks [and] Turks” (Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Encountering the Mystery, Doubleday, 2008, pp xxxvii, 196, 174). As students of history know, Islam has no history of dialoguing or coexisting peacefully with any non-Muslim peoples, and has waged relentless warfare against the Christian world s...