»So that there are no misunderstandings. I would never say anything against peace-loving, God-fearing Muslims. I am convinced that, thanks to divine guidance, they will find faith in Jesus in time and be saved. Muhammad is nevertheless dead, but his writings are a teaching of deception. The Quran contains the revelations of Muhammad and is interpreted in different ways and certain interpretations can turn believers into very dangerous weapons. For all who that take the sword, shall perish with the sword. To kill others has nothing to do with any Christian charity. One who uses violence must expect a violent response.«

  I already thought this prophet to be a fake dog. I never believed for a second, either - in that one of the 72 virgins. In the worst case 72 times my neighbor, granny Kruse, that old spinster.

  »By the way, what’s your name?«, I ask my travel companion.

  »Michelangelo. I am Italian. When I was 13, my parents moved to Bremerhaven. I lived there for 33 years. My desires then drove me back to Rome. I am on the way to Hamburg Airport right now.«

  »My very regards to the Pope!«

  »Regards to the Pope? History did show, that Popes are most of the times doing nothing but loving their power and gold more than anyone next to them.«

  An Italian, as truly known, loves three things more than anything: his family, his pasta and the sweet idleness.

Michelangelo keeps on telling the story and I am, of course, all ears.

  »It means nothing to celebrate any mass or to go to church, but only the personal relationship with Jesus Christ counts. Life is about development, about processes of ripening. Jesus said: Follow me! Take me as your idol! Thus they followed him. When you walk this way with him, you will rapidly notice that he is the right one. Open your heart to Jesus, he will renovate your insides and you will receive a new personality. You’ll become more alike day by day and as man is an effigy of God, you’ll turn into a great dude, a person filled with the Holy Spirit, that will swim against the current spirit of the age and who will never give up. Would you call the Pope any great dude?«

  Is he a man of action or a babbler?

  »I have to think about that.«