> Thomas wrote: >>Horace Heffner wrote: >> Pope urged to admit common ground >> >> Their letter, A Common Word, cited passages from the Koran which the >> scholars said showed that Christianity and Islam worship the same >> God, and require their respective followers to show each other >> particular friendship...
>> If it is the same Abraham it is the same God. > It takes a graduate school education in order to believe > something that stupid. We worship different gods, we have > different holy books, which have produced different legal > systems, which have resulted to two different civilizations. Hi Thomas, I could be wrong on this personal assessment of mine, but I get the sense that you are done educating me for now, and have instead decided to chip away at the ideologies of other vort members, perhaps in the hope of achieving better results. But again, that is a somewhat arrogant assessment on my part. Again, with apologies to the atheist members of Vort may I offer up the following personal perception: It seems to me that you need to envision great distinctions that exist between your vision of a Kingdom of Heaven and a lot of other visions concerning the Kingdom of Heaven. I realize it's possible that you may not at the moment appreciate the following invitation, but I do want you to know that you are always welcome in my Kingdom of Heaven. Actually, how stupid of me to put it is such possessive terms as it it isn't really "my" Kingdom of Heaven to parcel out to anyone, not anymore than your current Kingdom of Heaven is yours to parcel to whom you perceive as the lucky few who follow the correct beliefs and adhere to the correct rituals. It remains my perception that the Kingdom of Heaven has always been everyone's right, that there are no Gated Communities in g*d's eye. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_community It's only been we humans, immersed in our own ignorance and fears, who desperately attempt to "gate" g*d within our exclusive community - and to hell with everyone else. I doubt g*d falls for that. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
