Theos-Talk Archives (November 1998 Message tt00236)

In a message dated 11/15/98 7:14:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, am455@lafn.org
writes:

<< If religious bigotry were only or primarily caused by how seriously or how
 attached we are to our beliefs then each and every serious or devout Roman
 Catholic (for example) would be a Savonarola.  There would never appear a
 St. Francis or Father Damien, who surely did not take their spiritual
 views, beliefs or ideas casually.  >>

A good insight!  as in Hinduism, for example, one
can be a rigid, very dualistic Hari Krishna devotee or a
Shankaracharya or Yogananda or Ramakrishna....in
Islam, a hard core Moslem literalist or a Sufi, and so on.

Augoeides