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When Reason & Theology became Reason & Dhimmitude
"Jumping the shark" is an idiom that refers to a point where a creative work, especially a television show, has reached its peak and is starting to decline in quality or relevance. It's often used to describe a moment when a show introduces a ridiculous or unbelievable plot element in a desperate attempt to stay popular. The phrase originated from a 1977 episode of the TV show Happy Days where Fonzie water-skis over a shark.
It finally happened.
After years of circling the tank, Michael Lofton has officially jumped the shark. In his June 30, 2025 video titled “Does Catholicism Teach Muslims Can Be Saved?”, Lofton attempts to defend religious pluralism Vatican II–style, assuring viewers that Muslims can indeed be saved, not despite their religion, but in some mysterious sense, through it.The skis left the water when Lofton claimed that non-Christians can be saved “through the goodness” found in their own religions. Not in spite of their errors. Not because God rescues them out of those religions. But by the Holy Spirit working through the goodness withinthose religions, as long as the person is sincere, of course.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what happens when your ecclesiology is shaped by non-Magisterial subterfuge.
Let’s walk through the wreckage.
From “No Salvation Outside the Church” to “Saved Through the Mosque”
Continued below.
“Saved Through Islam”: Michael Lofton Jumps the Shark
When Reason & Theology became Reason & Dhimmitude
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