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Pope includes Hindu verses in prayers on Good Friday
merinews ^ | Apr 14, 2009

Posted on 02/08/2011 7:12:21 AM PST by Gamecock

HINDUS HAVE applauded Pope Benedict for including verse from ancient Hindu scripture Upanishads in the Good Friday Meditations and Prayers led by him at Roman Colosseum.

Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was a remarkable gesture from Pope and invited him to study more ancient Hindu scriptures, which were very rich in philosophical thought. He or other Hindu scholars would gladly provide the help and resources in this regard, if asked, Zed added.

Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, also commended His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for inclusion of a verse from India’s Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali and reference to peace icon Mahatma Gandhi in these prayers.

This year’s 'Way of the Cross at the Colesseum' Meditations and Prayers on Good Friday, led by Pope, included well-known verse from Brahadaranyakopanishad (“Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality”), line from Tagore’s Gitanjali (“Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service”) and reference to Mahatma Gandhi.

Rajan Zed stressed that all religions should work together for a just and peaceful world. Dialogue would bring us mutual enrichment, he added.

Pope Benedict heads the Roman Catholic Church, which is the largest of the Christian denominations. Hinduism, oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksha (liberation) is its ultimate goal.


TOPICS: Catholic; General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: catholicbashing; hindu
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To: Dr. Brian Kopp; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; ...

To wit . . .

PLEASE TELL ME

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME

An RC thread criticizing

Kathryn Kuhlman was locked because dozens of Proddys sat on the abuse button about it?

or one about

Jim Baker; or Joel Olsteen or Benny Hinn or the Purpose Driven Life author?

WHEN?

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hasn’t ever happened. Proddys don’t behave that way.

We have thicker skins.


481 posted on 02/09/2011 8:21:46 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix

As ab “RC” I promise to say a Rosary for you.

But, my heart tells me that I wish I knew enough Latin to tell you (in Latin of course) to “Lighten up Francis”.


482 posted on 02/09/2011 8:23:08 PM PST by Little Pharma
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To: IrishCatholic; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; ...
EVERY ONE
OF THOSE STATIONS

HAS BEEN

EXCEEDINGLY WELL EARNED

BY THE

BEHAVIORS

OF THE RC'S ON FR,
24/7/365
YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT.

Y'all want to complain about the source of that
--look in the mirror.

483 posted on 02/09/2011 8:26:33 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: lastchance; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; ...

We’d have to travel a dozen galactic clusters over down that road to even rise to the gravel under the foundation of the edifice the RC’s hereon have erected of that ilk.

Y’all are galactic masters of what y’all falsely accuse Proddys of.

Incredible.


484 posted on 02/09/2011 8:30:27 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
**What a farce to pretend that’s authentic Christianity.**

Could you please reflect, prayerfully reflect, on these words of Jesus Christ? (And the specific words that I have bolded within it? Thanks.

PS. This was today's Gospel -- a good one, no?

Gospel

Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them,
“Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;
but the things that come out from within are what defile.”

When he got home away from the crowd
his disciples questioned him about the parable.
He said to them,
“Are even you likewise without understanding?
Do you not realize that everything
that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
since it enters not the heart but the stomach
and passes out into the latrine?”
(Thus he declared all foods clean.)
“But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him.
From within the man, from his heart,
come evil thoughts,
unchastity, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, malice, deceit,
licentiousness,
envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
All these evils come from within and they defile.”


485 posted on 02/09/2011 8:32:02 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: presently no screen name

Manipulation, intimidation, control.


INDEED. And based on falsehoods to begin with.

!!!!CONTROL!!!! phreaques gone wild.

It’s endemic to the INSTITUTION.

I think it’s all they know how to do.

No wonder there was an Inquisition. IT’s in their blood or DNA or something.

Maybe it’s in the ‘holy’ water . . . or their special wafers.

May God multiply donations 10 times over for every dollar withheld by RC’s.


486 posted on 02/09/2011 8:32:35 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Little Pharma; Quix
As ab “RC” I promise to say a Rosary for you.

I might be speaking out of turn here, but I doubt Quix would pay it much attention. Prayers are fine, but we proddys would rather you leave the rosary out of it.

On the upside its definitely not a bible based practice, on the downside is probably more accurately referred to as 'heresy'

487 posted on 02/09/2011 8:32:42 PM PST by conservativegramma
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To: lastchance

Sounds like you are talking about the persistently special privileged RC’s.


489 posted on 02/09/2011 8:33:27 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: conservativegramma
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490 posted on 02/09/2011 8:34:11 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Religion Moderator

My outrage would have been greatly muffled had I known you were around.

Sigh. The duplicity stuff sometimes really gets to me.

I’ll calm down.

Sorry.


492 posted on 02/09/2011 8:44:31 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Judith Anne; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; ...

When you stick a sharp stick in Proddys eyes,

you can expect a response from a lot of us, me included.

What leaves you convinced that you deserve special treatment and life-time free passes on that score?

All the Proddys I know have a greater attraction to clean fingers than stalking would allow.


493 posted on 02/09/2011 8:46:53 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Religion Moderator

I’ll withdraw.

My bad.

Sigh.


494 posted on 02/09/2011 8:48:12 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
their DIVINE RIGHT to expect that FR will conform to their and the Vatican's sensibilities and authoritarian !!!!DEMANDS!!!!

Time and time again - Demands/CONTROL/Manipulation of Scripture, manipulation of posts. Liberal tactics on a conservative forum.

AS WELL AS--the brazenly distorted realities involved.

Exactly! And truly laughable. Remember - catholics' interpretation of words are different than 'normal'. And, IMO, it seems to follow into abnormal behavior.
495 posted on 02/09/2011 8:51:56 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: conservativegramma; Religion Moderator
Note -- 341 is where I pointed out you repeating a lie. There is a difference.

RM -- I note that 364 is not removed yet despite this being a direct personal insult,against Forum rules
497 posted on 02/09/2011 8:54:40 PM PST by Cronos
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To: Quix
I'm still waiting to see any sign of your supposed candor about Pentecostalism guys like Benny Hinn or Popoff --> you yourself said that Catholic's don't have 10% of the supposed candor that you display against pentecostal errors.<

Where is it?

Have you ever studied psychology?
498 posted on 02/09/2011 8:57:20 PM PST by Cronos
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To: boatbums; caww

So, boatbums, where is the Sista brigade on these attacks?


499 posted on 02/09/2011 8:57:57 PM PST by Cronos
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To: Quix

Way I see it is there is a boxing match been going on for centuries between RC’s and proddy’s. Sometimes blood gets spilled. So naturally from time to time this boxing match is going to find its way on FR.

It all comes down to ‘heresy’. The RC’s yell HERETIC towards the proddy for daring to question the pope, the magisterium and the extra-biblical creeds and sacraments they hold dear.

The proddy in turn yells HERETIC towards the RC’s for violating Scripture, and teaching as Doctrine the traditions of Men which Christ Himself rebuked.

If you ask me its a battle between Scripture and tradition. Scripture will always come out on top. God’s Word will always, ALWAYS prevail so the RC’s have their panties in a wad. You see deep down they KNOW Scripture is the higher authority even though they can’t openly admit it, so the gnashing of teeth and anger and attempts to silence any forms of dissent. The proddy on the otherhand is secure in those same Scriptures and can afford to be humorous about the debates, even empoying satire and sarcasm every once in a while and thus usually has a thicker skin. JMO.


500 posted on 02/09/2011 9:00:04 PM PST by conservativegramma
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