Abe Ministry Ecumenical Efforts (1)

DECLARATION ON THE RELATION OF THE CHURCH TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS NOSTRA AETATE PROCLAIMED BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI ON OCTOBER 28, 1965 1. In our time, when day by day mankind is being drawn closer together, and the ties between different peoples are becoming stronger, the Church examines more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions.  In her task of promoting unity and love among men, indeed among nations, she considers above all in this declaration what men have in common and what draws them to fellowship... Men expect from the various religions (There is now and has always been only one religion)answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition, which today, even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men.. 2. From ancient times down to the present, there is found among various peoples a certain perception of that hidden power which hovers over the course of things and over the events of human history; at times some indeed have come to the recognition of a Supreme Being, or even of a Father. This perception and recognition penetrates their lives with a profound religious sense. Religions, however, that are bound up with an advanced culture have struggled to answer the same questions by means of more refined concepts and a more developed language. Thus in Hinduism, men contemplate the divine mystery and express it through an inexhaustible abundance of myths and through searching philosophical inquiry. (Pagan Heresy. Now, imagine a council writing about cannibalism and describing it as but a different diet) ) They seek freedom from the anguish of our human condition either through ascetical practices or profound meditation or a flight to God with love and trust....  She regards with sincere reverence  (Why reverence a false faith ? Surely one can be respectful of others ensnared by Satan in false religions but, reverence for those false faiths... ) those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men... The Church, therefore, exhorts her sons, that through dialogue and collaboration with the followers of other religions, carried out with prudence and love and in witness to the Christian faith and life, they recognize, preserve and promote the good things, spiritual and moral, as well as the socio-cultural values found among these men.

Raider Fan had just dropped some peyote and was looking forward to joining the drum circle inside a sweat lodge, having completed a fire walk two days after a weekend at an EST Seminar training, when, suddenly, Raider Fan tripped over Rod McKuen and he fell at the feet of his Kundalini Yoga instructor, Ravi Davi Shitorshatki;  I'm ok, you're ok; still my chakras are on the fritz and my gestalt is so gemeinschaft that I now refer to Hitler as Dolphie; and after a few minutes of silence he smiled at me and said;

You are anxious over nothing, grasshopper. Your troubles are not real and that non-reality could be super glued to the wing of a midge and that little bastid could still fly up into the sky so high you could not see it with your third eye. That'll be $50.00.

My Bishop thinks my ecumenical experiences have enriched my life and broadened my horizons but I wonder if I ought to have just stuck with being a citizen of the perfect society...

O, that's right.  Our self-identifaction as a perfect society also received the sacramental of defenestration

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Nevertheless, we at ABE Ministry think even Cardinal Newman would reject that as an authentic development