Just what everybody needs — more religion in public life:
In Jordan, Pope Benedict XVI sought to stress the importance of religion in public life as a way to find common ground with Jewish and Muslim groups.
Isn't it kind of a "tell" when religionists act all deferential to other religions?
Either they've got a direct pipeline to God's Truth, or they don't — in which case, this is just professional courtesy among con men.
I like my beer cold, my music loud, and my religionists intolerant!
However, according to John L. Esposito of Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, they have a great opportunity to bond around a common enemy:
"What is often missed, by many on both sides, is that at the end of the day there's a core of religious belief and outlook that many Catholics and Muslims share," he says. "They're very concerned about family values and they're certainly very concerned about secularism ... that is not simply separation of church and state, but secularism that is antireligious."
Antireligious people, who lack traditions like institutionalized boy rape and "honor killings" of raped girls, are surely a threat to family values. Collaborating to marginalize and crush the troubling heathens will, perhaps, make each religion set aside the others' laughably/damnably faulty vision of God. And that's a beautiful thing!
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church of reality scores best
Once you are born again in the Church of Reality...
You can see Reality clearly.
Reality speaks to you every minute!
Your faith can abide forever in Reality.
Reality is the "way" the "source" the "purpose"
Amen.
boy rape is seen as what it is.. a crime. such things are not hidden as that is not "reality" but denial of reality. perpetrators are turned over to authorities for punishment because that too is "reality."
The church of reality considers wife burning and woman-stoning as, indeed, crimes of reality. The perpetrators, no matter how hopped up on reli-juice (more powerful than meth in some cases) must be punished to the fullest extent of the law as that is part of "Accepting Reality."
dupager
Yes
This is what I've never quite gotten about these trips and interfaith services and the like. I mean, I'd like it if they were at peace (it means we get caught in the crossfire less often), but that doesn't require these false formalities, really. To me, if I were of one of the three faiths, this would really kind of cheapen the faith I chose. I'm not sure I understand these, particularly when you consider that the Pope essentially called, or eluded to, Islam an evil faith not even a few years ago.
I guess I shouldn't try and concern myself with religious kabuki. After all, if religious kabuki was supposed to make sense, it'd probably not be religious.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
I've said much the same thing
http://susiemadrak.com/2008/07/31/18/59/...
“if it made sense, it wouldn’t be religion.”