Here are a few random thoughts that are fluttering around in my head...
...Christ is the true and living way, but he is not the monopoly of christians... I don't understand a book based christianity, the Word was made flesh, not paper and ink... Sure the Qur'an seems to advocate violence, but it comes no where near the scale or kind of violence in our own Bible... I am so tired of polarized polotics, as though extreme left and extreme right are the only two views of any one subject... I long for a day when dialogue and acceptance would prevail... I miss old friends who have not responded to my friend requests on facebook... I've seen so many couples divorce, I sometimes wonder if we realize how our performance based religion puts enormous and virtually impossible pressure on couples... Catholic fundamentalism is probably the ugliest form I have ever encountered... I would really like to visit a Mosque, but I have no idea about protocol... I wish my church would stop playing around with the liturgy... I wonder if I will be able to convince christians in this city to join in prayer and demonstration with our Coptic brothers and sisters and their plight in Egypt... I wonder how different Christianity would look if Hindu philosophy instead of Greek philosophy was at it's underpinnings... McGuinty only needs one MPP to cross the floor and give him a majority... I wonder how many pastors are railing this week about the evil of Hallowe'en... I would love to able to go back to school, study at St. Paul University... It took a long time, but I now support equality for all people... The GLBT and Christian communities need to enter into dialogue... Sometimes I wish I had sought to be received into the Orthodox church instead of the Catholic church... I long for a quiet life of prayer and obscurity... I know I could beat my son and win back our toy wrestling championship belt if only he would give me a rematch... A morally contingent afterlife of bliss which includes "proper belief" seems like a rather strained and impossible concept to me... It's time to visit the Hindu Temple, but again, protocol... I wish I could think more clearly... I believe in mission, without conversion...
That's all for now...
...Christ is the true and living way, but he is not the monopoly of christians... I don't understand a book based christianity, the Word was made flesh, not paper and ink... Sure the Qur'an seems to advocate violence, but it comes no where near the scale or kind of violence in our own Bible... I am so tired of polarized polotics, as though extreme left and extreme right are the only two views of any one subject... I long for a day when dialogue and acceptance would prevail... I miss old friends who have not responded to my friend requests on facebook... I've seen so many couples divorce, I sometimes wonder if we realize how our performance based religion puts enormous and virtually impossible pressure on couples... Catholic fundamentalism is probably the ugliest form I have ever encountered... I would really like to visit a Mosque, but I have no idea about protocol... I wish my church would stop playing around with the liturgy... I wonder if I will be able to convince christians in this city to join in prayer and demonstration with our Coptic brothers and sisters and their plight in Egypt... I wonder how different Christianity would look if Hindu philosophy instead of Greek philosophy was at it's underpinnings... McGuinty only needs one MPP to cross the floor and give him a majority... I wonder how many pastors are railing this week about the evil of Hallowe'en... I would love to able to go back to school, study at St. Paul University... It took a long time, but I now support equality for all people... The GLBT and Christian communities need to enter into dialogue... Sometimes I wish I had sought to be received into the Orthodox church instead of the Catholic church... I long for a quiet life of prayer and obscurity... I know I could beat my son and win back our toy wrestling championship belt if only he would give me a rematch... A morally contingent afterlife of bliss which includes "proper belief" seems like a rather strained and impossible concept to me... It's time to visit the Hindu Temple, but again, protocol... I wish I could think more clearly... I believe in mission, without conversion...
That's all for now...
6 comments:
1) Live the word without seeking the validation of its claimed administrators, and it will make more sense than you can articulate.
2) You work with hundreds of Hindus and Muslims, yet you cop out by hiding behind protocol? With all due respect, remove your head from your posterior.
3) Go Leafs Go. Just sayin'.
I am not copping out! I really don't know what the protocol would be for visiting a house of worship of another faith tradition. In what ways would I be able to participate? Should I? I need to ask some Muslim friends what I need to do, that's all... :)
Same goes for my Hindu friends, and Sikh friends. I don't want to give offense is all.
Give offense, make waves, get busy!
So, if electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Now, I duck.
There is only one faith where the fullness of truth subsists and that is the Church that Christ founded, which is One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic. Don't lose your faith. Come back Home.
Yikes...
Anon, I understand your proselytization memes, so many faiths have the same worldview in this regard. Searching the world for truth is not a threat to your faith unless the truth you speak of is false. While I believe that there is more to the truth than the Catholic faith, I can respect your faith and not suggest to you that you should look elsewhere. But, if Michael wants to look around this earth, he shouldn't be chided for "leaving home". Billions of people have no access to the Catholic faith, and I would suggest that they are "home" with their beliefs. A simple trip to a few more Catholic-practicing countries might even shake your own foundation on what truths you hold as absolute, as you begin to understand how things like financial security, stable government, and clean water affect faith and how people practice your Catholic faiths and live the word.
No, don't "go home" Michael. There is far more to your faith than the obtuse semantics of Canadian intellectual Catholicism.
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