Digest Number 255]: Some food for thought!

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Please refer to the following comment:

 

Comment:

> >Namaste Mohan,

> >

> >I went and checked out that article, as you so kindly suggested

> >and found the following quote:

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> > " The Pope is coming to India to promote the cause of Catholicism,

> >which means the conversion of Hindus. "

> >

> >This is the 'height of stupidity'

> >

> >> >OM SHANTHI OM

> >

> >+OM

> >

I don't know on what basis OM SHANTI OM is asserting that the Pope is not

going to promote the cause of Catholism. Let me quote Pope's statement from

LA Times dated November 8, 1999 (page A12):

 

" John Paul had called on Asian Catholic leaders Saturday to heed the Christian

" call to coversion " and work harder in the next millennium to " penetrate the

hearts of Asian peoples " with the belief that Jesus Christ is mankind's only

savior "

 

Let us compare the Pope's above statement with our Swami Vivekanada's views:

" Much has been said of the common ground of religious unity. I am not

going just now to venture my own theory. But if any one here hopes that

this unity will come by the triumph of any one of the religions and

destruction of others, to him I say, 'Brother, yours is an impossible

hope.' Do I wish that the Christian would become Hindu? God forbid. Do

I wish that the Hindu or Buddhist would become Christian? God forbid. "

" The Christian is not to become a Hindu or a Buddhist, nor a Hindu or a

Buddhist to become a Christian. But each must assimilate the spirit of

the others and yet preserve his individuality and grow according to his

own law of growth. "

" If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world it is

this : It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are

not the exclusive possession of any church in the world, and that every

system has produced men and women of exalted character. In the face of

this evidence, if anyone dreams of the exclusive survival of his own

religion and the destruction of others, I pity him from the bottom of my

heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will

soon be written, in spite of resistance: 'Help and not Fight',

'Assimilation and not Destruction', 'Harmony and Peace and not

Dissension'.

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Let Om Shanthi Om consider and support the ideas which will promote peace and

harmoney in the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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