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Schöne Grüße, Ludvig.

What is the unity based on? This question parallels the one I was asking before: what is the ethics based on. I think the basis makes all the difference. In Martin Buber's terms, our challenge is to become more responsible to the divine. Ethical action may be an expression of that.

Hell as a temporary state of affairs seems to be one area of agreement with Hindu and Buddhist religions.

I think one way to approach the subject of evil is to look at how religions respond to it. Obviously, salvation wouldn't be necessary if evil does not exist. As I understand it, suffering is a starting point for the Buddhist idea of salvation. For the sake of discussion, I'm prepared, to say...

Operacast, From the article:From a review of the anthropological and evolutionary literatures, Craig Joseph (at Northwestern University) and I concluded that there were three best candidates for being additional psychological foundations of morality...

The remark about defensiveness is obvious, yet a fair amount of online interaction seems intended to maintain it (which is why I mentioned it :)). I have no way to attest to someone's holiness. But we are aware that "38 Islamic authorities and scholars from around the world, representing all...

It might have some value in the dialogical dialect. Ditto the pitting of seemly incompatible views against each. It's a fairly traditional way of framing arguments and dramatizing. By no means specific to this forum.

:) :) :) Smiles for you, too!

Thanks for the feedback, muchly appreciated!

To me the person would seem the most real until real goals of inter-personal has been clarified. The Koran has a interfaith orientation: "O people! Behold, we have ... made you into nations and tribes so that you might come to know one another. (Koran 49:13) I think overcoming defensiveness...

I think evil can be seen as an objective reality. It can certainly be created as an objective reality. One of the illustration we find in Buddhism is about the evil of interfering with good. The example of stopping the expression of Buddha nature by interfering with an act of compassion comes...

Dream, I think what I'm getting at is that there is a path of transformation that involves free will and a personal knowledge of Truth. In order to not derail this thread further, I would need to link that to the idea of Interfaith. Maybe we should start of with a good working definition of...

The foundation of all truth is Jesus Christ, who is Truth (1 John 14:6). This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all (1 John 1) Hi Dream, I wanted to do a little more with this theme. Let's look at the context for the passage...

Wil, I'd say Buddhism is a salvific religion that involves a metaphysics. It includes ideas about the organization of the universe (cosmology) and it also includes ends-of-time doctrine (personal salvation). At the very least, it is a faith as far as including assumptions about how karma is...

"Faith is a gift from God. Our faith is not of ourselves, but rather it becomes a reality in our lives once we have been graced with the indwelling presence of the Father's loving spirit....If we are open to the Father's presence, we can be assured that he will indeed enter intimately into our...

I'd be interested in one example from this forum where someone backed down on one of their core beliefs as a result of a discussion they had here.

It appears that Shakespeare was a Catholic, so to quote him here seems like a bit of a misapplication of his words.

YouTube - Shabnum Majeed sings Iqbal - La phir ik baar wohi Bada-o-Jam

My initial reaction is that those similar ethical attitudes are not necessarily mythic, nor do they tell us much about a theological belief system. In fact, I don't think they are that far removed from what secular humanists might endorse without appealing to any of the stories (cosmology or...

Exactly. Btw, apart from the sentiment, I thought it was a decent "Interfaith" message. There's a Diwali Festival of Lights celebration observed by Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains that can include prayers for the well-being community.