From: "Mervyn Lobo" <mervynal...@yahoo.ca>
<<George Pinto wrote:
All religions are equally unequal except when they unequally equal,
although I have heard some religions are equally equal when they
are not unequally unequal.
Hope this helps and clarifies the matter.
**I am sorry. this is riduculous. You are mocking at the structural
dimension of human existence, religion.
I do not know what religion or a-religion you are following or not
following...
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
George,
Someone got it exactly right the other day when he sent a quote here
that suggested:
<<"When you convert from one religion to another, all you are doing is
exchanging one cage for another."
***Every institution is like a cage. But we need cages for our education and
life. What about children? Are they not in your cage?
What about you wife? Is she not in your cage?
What about marriage? Is it not a cage?
But we are born, grow and prosper in these "cages".
We should learn to grow in freedom. That is the secret of Religion.
"The Truth will make you free" (cf.Jn 8:32).
<<Every religious person here is convinced that his/her religion is the
truth and the way. The more religious the person, the more convinced
s/he is in that everything in his/her religious book is the absolute truth.
**Quite natural. In a dialogue we depart from the absolute, which is the
experience of God (faith-experience) in our own religion and culture.
I should investigate it and live by it.
There is no possibility for us to live if we are not anchoring in reality
and truth, the truth of our existence, the truth of our faith, the truth of
our religion.
For the non-believers, these religious arguments are an endless source of
amusement...
***I agree to disagree with you. There is no non-believer or atheist in the
world, if you understand what I mean. There is an absolute truth for
everyone.
Nobody can live in a vacuum. We absolutize often wrongly. This issue cannot
be "endless source of amusement" for anyone, for it is a question of
survival in life.
The world is full of problems on account of this mystery of human
existence. You have not yet understood well the issue. Sorry to say.
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
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