If he admitted this, it confirms the atmosphere of hatred that has stricken a priest who gave Christian and fraternal witness, like that of Charles de Foucauld.

This is a very damaging confusion.

Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.

[Eugene V. Debs, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest]