Kinda like the world’s tallest midget or Jumbo Shrimp.
Someone who is a liar and an all roads lead to God moron.
Who am I to judge, after all I’m a Roman Catholic Male Lesbian. And I think all of us RCML’s should apply immediately to the government for protected status.
Confused?
There are no Roman Catholic Buddhists. The two systems are mutually exclusive. Catholics can meditate. I do. That is a Buddhist practice. It is also a Hindu practice, and even saying the Rosary in a quiet place is meditation and can be very similar to meditation as practiced by Buddists. Buddhist monks also wear toga-like robes but Catholics dressing that way would not be Buddhist Catholics or necessarily even monks. Shaving one’s head to a topknot likewise does not make one a Buddhist Catholic. Peripherals, while they may confuse observers, are not content or even actually indicative of content.
One can be a Catholic Platonist and Aristotilian, why not a follower of the philosopher Siddhartha? One would have to excise some of Siddhartha’s Hindu baggage, like Zen did, but after that, why not? I could see how one might be able to unite Zen mediation techniques with, say, the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius.
Replace “Roman Catholic” with “Christian”.
There is no place in GOD’s creation for a Christian Buddhist.
“I am the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE. NO ONE comes to the father except by ME.”
Thus says our LORD and Savior JESUS the CHRIST. The only begotten SON of the incomparably great “I AM”.
There is no place for Buddha or any other false god in that equation.
I’m a Lollard from way back. John Wycliff for, well, my spiritual non-adviser.
The article is hilarious for its gosh-golly antiCathoic bigotry.
The Jews, and Hebrews before them had a positively brilliant idea, that any belief system can benefit from.
Simply put, it was the acceptance that not only didn’t they know it all; but that other people often have very good ideas as well.
So even if a heathen has a good idea, why not adopt it? And this acceptance has profited them immensely, because even before their diaspora, they made an effort to learn from others, even if they were their enemies. And this learning good ideas from others really came into its own with the diaspora: each and every place and people contributing to their knowledge of things.
While Christians are sometimes hesitant to embrace this idea, they are usually still willing to separate the wheat from the chaff in the ideas of others, as long as it doesn’t really despise Christian beliefs.
An excellent example of this is Acupuncture. Dating very far back, some suspect to the Neolithic period, it evolved into a very complex system of medicine. However, it also adopted a log of pagan and mystical ideas. Yet these are not integral to the system, and can be easily ignored.
So here is the question. If you have “secular acupuncture”, no longer tainted by pagan mysticism, is it still anathema to Christianity? Especially if it works?
"If in coming face to face with God we accept Him in our lives, then we are converting. We become a better Hindu, a better Muslim, a better Catholic, a better whatever we are. ... What God is in your mind you must accept" (from Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work , by Desmond Doig, p. 156, as quoted by Dave Hunt, Global Peace and the Rise of Antichrist , p. 149).
Calling the Catholic religion Christian is not just a stretch it’s simply wrong.
An ecumenist.
Isn’t that like a Corporal-Captain?
Oh that’s o.k. I have friends who are Zen Mennonite. We have dinner sometimes with the Hindu Rabbi.
Tom:
Nevertheless, there they are, and this is full bore, whether you call it the New Age, whether you call it Eastern mysticism. This is supposedly compatible with Roman Catholicism.
Dave:
Well indeed it is, but it’s not compatible with Christianity, and Roman Catholicism has veered away from Christianity for a long, long time.
And that’s the real point isn’t it: If I were a “conservative Catholic” (but I am not, I am a born-again Christian) who actually believed scripture-and was born again (or even just searching from the truth, but knew in some way that The Gospel was true..).
I’d leave that Church in a heartbeat and seek after a Biblical Christian to tell me the truth before the Lord came back!
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“Buddha wasn’t a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.”
- Ray Wylie Hubbard