[Aquinasfan]

Like abortion, he said through an interpreter (thus choosing his words carefully), "these are very complex issues on which it is very difficult to make generalised statements because the individuality of each context would be so different that it is something that needs to be judged - the merits of its decision - based upon context by context".

Bleah.

The Hindu/ Buddhist pantheistic mist evaporates under a couple of internal contradictions:

• If truth is oneness and "the word of truth is One and the word of two is error," then "true" and "false" cannot exist. Yet this statement is a truth claim.

• If the world is "Maya" (illusion) and everything is really One, then where did the illusion come from? Is there really an illusion and a hidden reality or is everything One?