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Blogger China Hand said...

Some commenters on Peking Duck made the point that it’s understandable that the Pope should have the right to speak his mind. And if he believes that Buddhists are (doctrinal) jerk-offs, well, free speech doesn’t stop at the Inquisitor’s door.

A few thoughts.

The Pope believes his is the one true faith, qualitatively different from all others.

That’s his right, even his duty. It’s the cornerstone of his faith.

He can also trash other religions, not only as inferior in doctrine and rigor but also false paths to salvation.

No problem.

But he’s also the head of a religion that claims not only to profess the true Word of God, but also to serve as God’s instrument on earth, and provide the means of human salvation that is not only unique but universal (“Catholic).

It’s a test of his leadership—and God-given duties as Pope—to put points on the board for the Catholic Church worldwide, and not just in the European homeland.

Pope John Paul II, who shared many of Cardinal Ratzinger’s views including, presumably, revulsion at Buddhism, understood that his job was to condone inter-faith dialogue so that the Catholic Church could claim to encompass the good points of other religions and at the same time assert its superiority in the critical matters of revealed truth and salvation.

Benedict XVI, on the other hand, appears to have made the dubious decision that other religions have to be discredited en toto so that Catholicism is the last faith standing.

It’s an understandable position for an Inquisitor to take.

It’s the necessary stand for the leader of an embattled sect, which is how Pope Benedict sometimes appears to regard himself.

But it is not a viable position for the leader of a global church that considers itself not only unique in truth but infinite in its understanding and universal in its scope.

Tearing every other religion (and for good measure, secular humanism) to their foundations so that the deluded turn to the true faith would be a tough job even if the Savior appeared in person to do the job. For fallible men and a fragile church to attempt it by themselves is simply beyond their capacity.

So instead of engaging in a multi-millennial argument with Islam, Buddhism, and every other religion that won’t be decided until the true God shows up to settle accounts, I think the interests of the Catholic Church and the world would be better served if Pope Benedict decided his faith could be most effectively protected and propagated by looking for good in the hearts of Buddhists, Muslims -- instead of making remarks easily construed as deriding them and their religions.

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Blogger G Warcriminal Shrub said...

I tried to masturbate to Buddhism, but to no avail...I guess I will have to try this Catholicism thing…again.

What the Great Papa needs to do is offer a better product than hatred, hypocrisy, fear, etc., and the people may come to him. But until that time, he may find that they are a lot smarter than that.

The other amazing thing to me about ALL religious types is why the need to “SAVE” everybody? …and against their will too. Why the need to hate people who just do not see it your way and are going to hell because of it? Should not THEY be coming to YOU?

If I knew the way out of a dangerous place to nirvana, would not people be following me because they know better? Of course if they knew I was just wasting their time, going to steal their money and just make me worship them in the HOPES of going to nirvana, I might be hesitant to follow me and they would then resort to some form of kidnapping.

Basically like most commerce, the Pope just needs a better product and the people will come. But selling snake oil does not work in this day of enlightenment and that just pisses these type of folks off. That is why they hate science and are trying to destroy the public school system. Ignorance is bliss to them.

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Blogger zingiber said...

As a former Catholic, and present Buddhist, I agree that Benedict's approach to spreading "the Faith" is counter-productive -- not just to members of other religions, atheists, agnostics, secular humanists -- but to many Catholics themselves. These Catholics and others wished for a return to Vatican II,to Pope John XXIII with his outreach and embrace of people of other faiths and and to those with no faith.

Many persons were hoping Benedict XVI would be as Pope -- a different person than he often was seen in his previous role as Head of the Propagation of the Faith.

These hopes appear to have been dashed to the ground.

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This morning I read that the Creation Museum in Kentucky has had 100,000 visitors when they were hoping for 25,000 the first year. This museum purports that the earth is merely 6,000 years old, Adam and Eve were there at the beginning in our present form, and that dinosaurs walked alongside them while Noah was busily building his ark and gathering together male and female species of every animal in existence in order to save them for procreation.

Then in the Middle East, in the name of religion we have family members killing their sisters because she "dishonored" them by leaving a husband she was forced to marry as a child.

Then Benedict comes out with his remark that the Catholic Church is the "one true" religion. In a world of billions of people, each having a mind of their own, he spews the same old same old I was fed for 12 years of Catholic schooling.

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