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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 Indias Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagores Gitanjali and reference to peace icon Mahatma Gandhi in these prayers.
This years '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 Tagores 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.
Apparently I am dense on this one because I seriously can’t see why you PERSONALLY VERIFYING the WORD OF GOD would be taken as an insult. Unless you hate the Word of God? Is that the reason? What? Who could be insulted by that who is claiming the Name of Christ?
Or is it something deeper? Is this a new tactic of the anti-proddy group to find imaginary insults against proddy’s, then blow them out of proportion in order to seek to get get them kicked off a particular thread?
Its MY OPINION (opinions are allowed, therefore its not personal) that some of you guys are doing just that. Its becoming blatant even to casual observers.
You were the one that made it about me, and I’m telling you to abide by the rules? Obeying the legitimate authority is a conservative value. What don’t you understand about that? Are you an anarchist?
No, “presently no screen name” is perverting Scripture to condemn me personally, and I’m calling him out by not abiding by the rules of this forum. This isn’t anarchy. This is a conservative forum. This isn’t about me being a victim. This about someone shirking his responsibility to follow the rules.
I would suggest ignoring some of the cretens. Its becoming obvious what they are trying to do.
Pathetic and unchristlike behavior, yes, but cheer up we MUST BE WINNING if they are resorting to dirty thug behavior! Or maybe they’re all just liberals and behaving like thugs comes naturally??? Who knows!
Do you want to retracting your own words you posted. Here’s an eraser.
Is the only thing catholics see is ‘themselves’ in everything? Is pride THAT thick that it makes their skin so thin?
And when they read TRUTH, that it’s so repellent to them - they go in ‘whine mode’?
Meditating on ‘It’s ALL about JESUS’ would fix that ‘it’s all me syndrome’.
There was no condemnation in his statement, nor was there a perverting of Scripture.
What IS happening is some posters blowing comments and posts OUT OF PROPORTION to the rules in order to target certain individuals so as to kick them off a thread. IMO. (Opinions are allowed so not ‘making it personal’).
RM: Perhaps this type of behavior should be addressed in the rules as well? I’ve been seeing this a lot lately on the religion forum. Only a suggestion, I know you’ve got a lot on your plate.
I agree. I already spent too much time w/the terrible two antics here.
I gotta run, CG.
Wellllllll, I think I learned to scan through massses of photos fast on webshots.com as well as through a considerable slide collection in years past.
I don’t scan through many thousands very often but I will scan through a thousand or 2 fairly often.
I confess, I’m willing to take slight responsibility for your growth in this dept. LOL.
I haven’t targeted anyone. Compared to some users, I’ve barely been on this thread. But as a FR veteran, I don’t take kindly to people twisting my words and making the subject about me instead of the bogus subject that this thread started on in the first place. I mean, I set the record straight back in post #24, and as Cronos has correctly pointed out above, this thread has devolved into another flame-fest.
Another time that CG is ascribing motive “ in order to target certain individuals so as to kick them off a thread. “ —> this is “pretending to read minds” and against Forum rules. This is one of the multiple times by the poster who has had posts pulled for inflammatory posts on this and other threads from banned sites, for personal insults and for reading minds.
The thread started as a flame-bait and is a flame-fest and will seemingly remain as one
Thanks for this — the poster in question’s posts on this and other threads do represent everything that FreeRepublic is against
Pathetic and unchristlike behavior, yes, but cheer up we MUST BE WINNING if they are resorting to dirty thug behavior! Or maybe theyre all just liberals and behaving like thugs comes naturally??? Who knows!
A bit schizophrenic . . . conservative on politics . . . fascist on rubberized theology that stretches around any obstacle in their way . . . yet is plenty hard and firm to bludgeon Proddys for any excuse or whim.
Or maybe this is just the season for the
LOL quix. You seriously need to come up with an animated grahic for the Vatican Monster Mash.
That would be quite hysterical!
And here you have deliberate finesing of rules
There sure seems to be a concerted, ?organized? effort to REVISIONISTLY MISLABEL Proddy posts AS THOUGH they violated rules when they obviously didn't . . . toward an effort to
!!!!FORCE!!!! . . . !!!!DEMAND!!!! that the FR Rel Forum CONFORM to Vatican sensibilities and tissue paper thin-skins.
How can such underhanded, dishonest, dirty tricks stuff be justified by folks claiming to be ANY KIND of "Christian?"
Post 612 is not a Satanic image.
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