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[Emoke Greschik]

 [image: Featured Image] Cardinal Gerhard Muller *Former Vatican head of
doctrine: Christians ‘cannot pray like or with Muslims’*

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-vatican-head-of-doctrine-christians-cannot-pray-like-or-with-muslims

ROME, May 21, 2019 (LifeSiteNews <https://www.lifesitenews.com/>) — *Cardinal
Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, **said in a recent interview that Christians “cannot pray like or
with Muslims.”*

Cardinal Müller, who held the position once occupied by Pope Emeritus
Benedict XVI, gave a reflection in Verona on the theme “Prayer: A gift from
God.” Speaking on May 17, he told hundreds of listeners that “*the faithful
of Islam are not* *adopted children of God by the grace of Christ*, *but
only his subjects*.” *Therefore, he said, with regard to Christians, “We
cannot pray* *like or with** Muslims*.”

Cardinal Müller reflected that this is because
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“their faith in God *and his self-revelation* is not only different from * *the
Christian faith in God,* *but even denies* *its formula*, claiming that God
does not have a Son, who, as the eternal Word of the Father, is a divine
person, and, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, is the One and
Trinitarian God.”

The former archbishop of Regensburg, Germany, said* Muslims “can only pray
to a distant God, submitting to his will as an unknown destiny. Their
prayer expresses the blind subordination to the dominant will of God. **The
Christian instead prays that the will of God be done, a will that we do in
liberty and that does not make us slaves, but free children of God.”*

Speaking at the Basilica of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus in the company
of Bishop Giuseppe Zenti, Müller asserted that Christians, unlike the
adherents of other religions, “do not view their neighbors, who do not want
or cannot believe in God, as opponents or victims of the Zeitgeist to be
pitied, but as brothers whose Creator and Father is the only God, the One
who seeks them out.

“They [Christians] offer an honest dialogue regarding the question that
determines the meaning of being in general and of human existence in
particular, because they feel united to them in the search for a better
world.”

For Müller, “*even Islam has faith in the one God*, *but which is
understood as a natural faith in the existence o*f *God* *and not **as
faith as a virtue infused with hope and love, which makes us sharers in the
life of God, ensuring that we remain in him and he in us.”*

The cardinal recalled that *“even some atheists pray,” but “their turn to
themselves is typical of the atheistic prayer.” *He said the latter is *“the
opposite of* *Christian prayer,*” *because “if man himself is a god to man
[homo homini Deus], then he prays turning to himself in the form of a
meditation that always revolves around himself: Man is both the subject and
the object of prayer.”*

Other theologians have pointed to similar essential differences between
Christianity and Islam. For example, the late Rev. James Schall pointed out
in *On Islam: A Chronological Record, 2002-2008*
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that the book that Muslims revere is not from God. Christians misunderstand
Muslims’ views is because they misunderstand Islam, Schall wrote.

To counter the spread of Islam and the migration of Muslims, Schall wrote,
“The first step needed, then, is the affirmation, from the Christian side,
that these views are as such false. They cannot be divine revelations.”

According to Schall*, the problem with Islam is its “voluntarist
metaphysics” that leads Muslim terrorists, for example, to wage war on the
West*. Theological voluntarism asserts that God’s essence is a form of will
[*voluntas*] and whose decisions cannot be explained in terms of reason.
Voluntarists believe, Schall writes, that “[w]hat is behind all reality is
a will that can always be otherwise. It is not bound to any one truth.”
Consequently, God [Allah] is not limited by the distinction.

*Muslims*, Schall writes*, “affirm that evil should not be done*. *But
sometimes it should be done. In that case, evil becomes good.”*
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