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Subject: Re: Buddhist relationship to other religions
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 01:11:26 EDT
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Quoth Chris Isbell quoting other:
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One should not honour only one's own religion and condemn the religions 
of others, but one should honour others' religions for this or that 
reason. So doing, one helps one's own religion to grow and renders 
service to the religions of others too. In acting otherwise one digs 
the grave of one's own religion and also does harm to other religions. 
Whosoever honours his own religion and condemns other religions, does so 
indeed through devotion to his own religion, thinking "I will glorify my 
own religion". But on the contrary, in so doing he injures his own 
religion more gravely. So concord is good: Let all listen, and be 
willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.
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Basic problem: I do not strive to honor my *religion*. I strive to honor
*God*. My "religion" (if the term applies) is not something I have
concocted to glorify something - it is doing what God said to do.
(And His command to Israel upon going into the Promised Land was the
opposite of the above quote: "Exterminate the worship of other gods.")
Isbell's quote implicitly assumes some human control over religion; my
"religion" is neither subject to nor authorized by man.

Lest someone address the question of Christian denominations: there is a
difference between *central* theology (also known as the fundamentals of
the faith) and *peripheral* theology (the source of many denominations).
Peripheral theology is debatable; central isn't, without going into a
different religion.
-- 
			The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
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