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<\/A>Punjabi Boy<\/A> has quite a find about the new Pope’s<\/A> views on Hindus and Buddhists<\/A>:<\/P>\nHinduism, he said, offers ‘false hope’; it guarantees ‘purification’ based on a ‘morally cruel’ concept of reincarnation resembling ‘a continuous circle of hell’… \n<\/P>\n
In 1997 Ratzinger annoyed Buddhists by calling their religion an ‘autoerotic spirituality’ that offers ‘transcendence without imposing concrete religious obligations’… The Cardinal predicted Buddhism would replace Marxism as the Catholic Church’s main enemy this century.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n
Ratzinger had even more choice words<\/A> for those who are not Catholic:<\/P>\n
… Dominus Jesus, the major Vatican document released… by Cardinal Ratzinger… called other world religions “gravely deficient,” denied that other religions can offer salvation independent of Christianity, and said non-Catholic Christian churches have “defects” and are not “churches” at all in the proper sense.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\n‘Enforcer,’ in the hockey sense, sounds about right.<\/P>\n
Update:<\/STRONG> Ratzinger was apparently more sparing with Judaism<\/A> (thanks, MD<\/A>):<\/P>\n
… Ratzinger played an instrumental role in the Vatican’s revolutionary reconciliation with the Jews under John Paul II. He personally prepared… [the] document outlining the church’s historical “errors” in its treatment of Jews…<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\nPrevious posts: 1<\/A>, 2<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Punjabi Boy has quite a find about the new Pope’s views on Hindus and Buddhists: Hinduism, he said, offers ‘false hope’; it guarantees ‘purification’ based on a ‘morally cruel’ concept of reincarnation resembling ‘a continuous circle of hell’… In 1997 Ratzinger … Continue reading