[Pope] Benedict was . . . [making] a deeper point worth hearing. In Auschwitz, his contention was that objective truth grounded in God is the only bulwark against the blind will to power; his Regensburg address was devoted to reason and faith, arguing that reason shorn of faith becomes nihilism, while faith without reason ends in fanaticism and violence; and in Brazil, he argued that since Christ embraces all humanity, he cannot be foreign to anyone’s spiritual experience. ~John L. Allen, Jr., “The Vatican’s Relative Truth,” nytimes.com, 12/19/07
If Benedict is saying 1) spirit power is the ultimate power in the universe, 2) reason and faith not grounded in spirit can go berserk, and 3) everyone experiences spirit . . . then a loud “Amen.” ~jpc
We live and move and have our being in spirit. Namaste.
image: photo by Quizz… http://www.flickr.com/photos/quizz/page8/
1 comments:
I doubt if that is what he means, but maybe. Anyway, I'll go with your rendition.
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