Re: Conciliatory moves over Easter

At 09:41 30.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:

>Maybe - but the sad fact of life is that one has to - especially in an age
>when having any religion at all is looked up as something odd & archaic by
>many.
Indeed.  At college I experienced that those of us in a class who had a
religion -- a very diverse group with one Buddhist (me), two Christians,
two Muslims (all of whom belonged to different denominations within their
faith), one Jew and one Baha'i -- felt an affinity among ourselves just
because we had to validate religiousness as such!  Today the major divide
is not between different religions, but between religion and
irreligion.  Ray and I have had occasion to note this in private
correspondence on various social and political phenomena in our two countries.

Ray said that on the other side of the grave he may discover that his
particular religion wasn't the one who got it all right.  He may well find
that all our religions have got it all right, but from different
angles.  My religion teaches me that Compassion is infinitely resourceful,
because the human mind is incapable of seeing things as they really are.




/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson
mailto:bpj@netg.se
mailto:melroch@my-deja.com
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