[RatRipper]

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?

[Future Snake Eater]

Good question.

[neocon1984]

If you really believe A, why would you react like statement B?

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.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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?

Probably because conversion implies a rejection of his parents faith - although Hinduism believes (A) is true, Christianity doesn't. Converts are implicitly or explicitly declaring that the faith they left isn't true or valid. It's understandable that Jindal's parents, who continue to follow the Hindu faith, aren't particularly pleased with their son's insistence that his new path is the only path, while the path they and their ancestors have followed for generations is false.

[Steelfish]

“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.

See below:

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000806_dominus-iesus_en.html