A - “The second tenet is that all religions are equally valid paths to the same God”
B - “My parents have never truly accepted my conversion and still see my faith as a negative that overshadows my accomplishments.”
If you really believe A, why would you react like statement B?
Good question.
Because it is more about culture for his parents than it is about religion. In accepting Jesus Christ, Bobby went against his parents' cultural expectations. In a larger sense, the stress between immigrant parents and their more "Americanized" children can get pretty intense. This story is a good example of how that can play out.
The second tenet is that all religions are equally valid paths to the same God
This is a politically correct tenet but not valid from the point of view of Catholic theology. If there are many paths to Heaven then it would appear sadistic for God to have the Son of Man tortured and crucified to death.
The world could have gone with Judaism, Buddhism and even Hinduism (assuming the latter two qualify as more than mere philosophical forays)
The case for Catholic belief and salvation through the risen Christ is brilliantly made by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in “Iesus Dominus.”
It is an unrivalled tour-de-force of theological scholarship.
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