We can all get along. If we're all alike

Pope baptizes prominent Muslim (though a non-practicing one):

Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service. An Egyptian-born, non-practicing Muslim who is married to a Catholic, Magdi Allam infuriated some Muslims with his books and columns in the newspaper Corriere della Sera newspaper, where he is a deputy editor. He titled one book "Long Live Israel."

As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Allam's head and said a brief prayer in Latin.

"We no longer stand alongside or in opposition to one another," Benedict said in a homily reflecting on the meaning of baptism. "Thus faith is a force for peace and reconciliation in the world: distances between people are overcome, in the Lord we have become close."

Okay. Let me see if I've got that straight: as long as everybody becomes a Roman Catholic, the world will be in harmony.

Look, I'm not even going to talk about what might or might not be wrong with the RCC. I just want to point out what a trivial thing this is, what a pointless thing, to say.

"Faith is a force for peace and reconciliation in the world" because this Muslim man is now a Catholic one and so he and the Pope "no longer stand... in opposition to one another."

So, as long as we're all together, we're ... no longer apart. How profound.