yang saya ketahui, yang membuat agama yang satu berbeda
dari agama yang lainnya itu ada pada 2 aspek:
(1) aspek konsep teologinya
(2) aspek liturgi (tata cara ibadah/ritualnya)
sedang kan pada aspek ajaran dasar moral, sebenarnya
cukup luas bidang pertemuannya - which is actually
'not very surprising' ( do you know why? ).
***
ketika mendengar wacana ada yang mengusulkan penerapan
"Perda berdasarkan syariat Injil" di daerah di Papua,
(1) reaksi seketika saya adalah kesan bahwa ini
sebenarnya hanya ungkapan "emosional", mungkin
karena merasa "gerah" dengan wacana penerapan
perda-perda berdasarkan syariat Islam.
(2) pada level "ajaran moral", saya kok tidak melihat
ajaran-2 pokok di kitab Injil ( sebatas yang saya
ketahui ) yang bertentangan dengan ajaran moral
Islam - kecuali dalam beberapa hal saja, misalnya
adanya larangan bercerai secara total - yang
di dalam Islam masih diperbolehkan jika terpaksa/
tidak ada jalan lain.
(3) waktu itu ada yang "nyeletuk" bahwa jika Perda berbasis
Injil tersebut, maka di sana wanita Muslimah tidak bisa
lagi mengenakan jilbab - weleh, ... :-)
ini ketemu pirang perkoro?
apa betul ada ajaran moral di kitab Injil yang
"melarang" wanita mengenakan pakaian yang menutupi
auratnya? silahkan ditunjukkan kalau ada yang tahu :-)
Padahal semua juga mengamati, orang-orang Katholik
- wanita- nya kalau lagi 'sowan' ketemu Sri Paus di
Vatikan selalu berusaha mengenakan pakaian yang
cukup "brukut" ( menutup aurat ) - bahkan sebagian
wanita mengenakan kerudung.
You can not meet the Pope if you dress like Britney
Spears, or even like mbak-mbak Sekretaris di Jakarta
yang (sengaja) mengenakan rok 'hampir-mini' sehingga
kalau duduk, sudah pasti kelihatan sebagian pahanya.
***
juga saya amati pada kultur masyarakat kristen Orthodox
( utamanya di Junani ), ada kebiasaan wanitanya mengenakan
kerudung - setidak-2 nya pada event-2 keagamaan. Saya
juga mengamati hal yang sama pada komunitas kristen
Minnonite di Kanada dan di jerman ini.
***
This is not to mention what is known of "Victorian era
code of dress" di era ratu Victoria di Inggris.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_fashion>
di situ misalnya terdapat *-dress-code-* untuk para gadis
yang menyebutkan bahwa panjang rok yang harus dikenakan
seorang gadis "sebanding" dengan umurnya. Untuk gadis
kecil usia 4 tahun, bolehlah roknya sekedar di bawah
lututnya. Tapi makin berumur, roknya harus semakin panjang,
sehingga pada saat remaja - 16 tahun - pun, roknya harus
kira-kira sepanjang sepuluh cm di atas tumit-nya; itu pun
sisa kakinya harus ditutup sepatu/kaus kaki.
wow, itu bahkan lebih "Konservatif" dari aturan di sekolah
SMA saya dulu yang mengaku sebagai "SMA Islam" yang hanya
mengenakan peraturan, rok para pelajar puteri harus 20
cm di bawah lutut dan mengenakan kaos kaki - meskipun
belakangan ( sejak 1980 - an ) ada peraturan mengenakan
jilbab bagi pelajar puteri. Menurut pendapat saya, aurat
wanita yang di "bagian kaki" jauh lebih penting untuk
ditutup dan disamarkan ketimbang sekedar 'urusan menutup
rambut' saja ... * if we're talking about priority.
***
lalu belum lagi kalau mau mengambil "syariat" dari
kitab-kitab perjanjian lama, "Levitikus" misalnya,
bisa jadi "Papua" akan menjadi daerah yang jauh
"lebih Puritan" ketimbang Aceh ...
***
jadi intinya, konflik "ideologi" yang ada sekarang
ini saya rasa bukan antara agama satu dengan agama
lainnya, tetapi antara agama dan ideologi sekuler
yang bergaung sejak masa Renaissans.
orang terlalu "cepat" menyimpulkan bahwa karena
di dunia ini ada berbagai macam agama, maka "tidak
mungkin" kita menarik nilai-nilai dari ajaran agama
sebagai dasar perumusan hukum; sehingga satu-satunya
jalan adalah "sekularisme".
coba deh di liat lagi, apa sudah betul begitu
satu-satunya solusi yang mungkin ...
---( IM )---------------------------------
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/pope_brazil>
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Pope: Youths must avoid 'snares of evil'
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By TALES AZZONI, Associated Press Writer
SAO PAULO, Brazil -
Pope Benedict XVI addressed sexual morality in
a speech to tens of thousands of young Catholics,
instructing them to avoid premarital sex, remain
faithful once they are married and to promote life
from "its beginning to natural end."
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The latter was at least in part a reference to
abortion, the issue that has dominated Benedict's
first visit to Latin America since he succeeded John
Paul II two years ago.
In one of the main events of his trip, some 1 million
people were expected to attend an open-air Mass Friday
canonizing an 18th-century Franciscan monk, Brazil's
first native-born saint.
On Thursday the Vatican released a transcript that
seemed to backtrack on the pope's remarks during his
flight from Rome, when he suggested that Catholic
lawmakers who vote to legalize abortion should
excommunicate themselves.
The Roman Catholic Church prohibits abortion, which is
illegal in Brazil as in most of Latin America except in
cases of rape or where the woman's life is in danger.
Yet while church law says anyone who procures an abortion
is automatically excommunicated, the Vatican's policy on
politicians who support abortion rights is the subject
of a growing debate.
The pope's lengthy speech Thursday evening at a youth
rally at a soccer stadium in Sao Paulo was delivered
in Portuguese. Full of moral instruction, notably
concerning sexual conduct, it was sure to resonate
across the region, home to more than half the world's
1.1 billion Roman Catholics.
The 80-year-old pope said young people were the future
of the church, and warned against drug use, violence,
corruption and the temptations of wealth and power.
"Seek to resist forcefully the snares of evil that are
found in many contexts," he told the crowd of some
40,000, with thousands more camped outside the stadium.
He made no mention of the church's battle against
Brazil's free distribution of condoms to combat
AIDS, but implored his young audience to promote
life from "its beginning to natural end." The
Vatican prohibits contraception, in addition to
abortion, euthanasia and in vitro fertilization.
Benedict called for fidelity between spouses and
chastity "both within and outside marriage" apparently
a reference to the church's view that sex should be
solely for the purpose of reproduction and instructed
the young to build a society based on Christian moral
values.
The crowd burst into a loud cheer when he mentioned
his predecessor, the late John Paul, who visited Brazil
three times. But they also shouted, "I love you,"
when Benedict finished talking.
Many in the crowd shared the pope's views polls
show that Brazilians are overwhelmingly against
expanding access to abortion. But beyond the stadium,
the pope's comments on excommunicating politicians
who favor legalizing abortion continued to provoke
debate.
Catholics have been arguing whether politicians who
approve abortion legislation, as well as doctors and
nurses who take part in the procedure, subject themselves
to automatic excommunication under church doctrine.
Asked during an in-flight news conference Wednesday
whether legislators who legalized abortion in Mexico
City should rightfully be considered excommunicated,
Benedict answered "Yes."
But his spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, later
said Benedict did not intend to formally excommunicate
anyone a rare process under church law and on
Thursday the Vatican released a slightly edited
transcript that dropped the word "yes" from the
pope's response.
Lombardi told reporters such edits are common. "Every
time the pope speaks off-the-cuff, the Secretariat of
State reviews and cleans up his remarks," he said.
The revision left many puzzled. Some newspapers in
Brazil and Mexico declared Benedict approves of
excommunication for politicians who support abortion
rights, while others said exactly the opposite that
he had ruled it out.
No matter what the pope says, some of the Mexican
legislators involved said they still consider themselves
Catholic.
Abortion did not come up in Benedict's meeting with
Thursday with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, Lombardi said.
But Silva said prior to the pope's arrival that while
he is morally opposed to abortion, his government has
a responsibility to treat it as a public health issue,
noting that many Brazilian women die from illegal
abortions. Silva's health minister is pushing for a
referendum on the matter, saying the country's macho
culture has prevented a legitimate debate.
___
Associated Press Writer Victor L. Simpson contributed to this report.
