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The part of the Pope's speech that really jumped out at me was when he warned about religious fundamentalism, religious extremism, looking at things through a black and white lens, and ideological extremism. That there should be a delicate balance.
I have a feeling that some posters here would completely disagree.
The part of the Pope's speech that really jumped out at me was when he warned about religious fundamentalism, religious extremism, looking at things through a black and white lens, and ideological extremism. That there should be a delicate balance.
I have a feeling that some posters here would completely disagree.
Not this one.
Religious fundamentalism is a disease that needs eradication.
The part of the Pope's speech that really jumped out at me was when he warned about religious fundamentalism, religious extremism, looking at things through a black and white lens, and ideological extremism. That there should be a delicate balance.
I have a feeling that some posters here would completely disagree.
I think a balance should be struck between religious fundamentalism and secular totalitarianism. Both are destructive when carried to the extreme. The Catholic Church of the middle ages was an example of fundamentalism at its worst.
Materialism denies God, secularism simply ignores him; at least that was the earlier attitude. More recently, secularism has assumed a more militant attitude, assuming to take the place of the religion whose totalitarian bondage it onetime resisted. Twenty first century secularism tends to affirm that man does not need God. But beware! this godless philosophy of human society will lead only to unrest, animosity, unhappiness, war, and world-wide disaster. ~ The Urantia Book, 195:8.5
The inherent weakness of secularism is that it discards ethics and religion for politics and power. You simply cannot establish the brotherhood of men while ignoring or denying the fatherhood of God. ~ The Urantia Book, 195:8.1
He said that the death penalty should be eliminated which is a liberal fundamental idea, and that abortion is still a sin where people need to repent which is a conservative idea................. I still believe that the majority of the democratic party would believe that abortion should be illegal if most people would agree , as there are no vote in the minority ............... So saying the pope is liberal on this and conservative on that , and is not right or left means that the world is corrupt ............................. Where the extremism is when people cuts people head off to appease God , which is religious fundamentalism , and not being politically bias to the government is not extremism
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