My point is you are expecting the «LAST» major
acknowledged religion in the world to be just as «like minded» today as Christianity.
Not exact matches
At the same time as the focus of much interfaith activity has become more practical, those
in positions of leadership
in the political and economic spheres are both recognizing the importance of
religion in shaping the modern
world and
acknowledging that there is a spiritual and ethical dimension to the major problems facing humankind.
You do realize that any attempt to try and portray «
religion» as bad fails utterly as: — it does not distinguish between the various
religions — it does not
acknowledge the immeasurable good that one
religion (Christianity) does
in the
world — it does not
acknowledge that atheists have killed hundreds of millions of people, a record no religious group can even get close to.
His chronicler therefore goes to lengths to
acknowledge first the furor created
in Mexico by the papal interview but then lists dozens of heads of governments received by the Vatican since
World War II, including not only Catholics but «Protestants, Anglicans, Orthodox, Buddhists, Mohammedans and followers of no
religion.
An interesting article
in Catholic
World Report [2] contrasted this with Hungary's constitution which
acknowledges Christianity as the basic
religion of the Hungarian people (while ensuring complete freedom of
religion) and includes:
Christianity is the only
religion in the history of the
world that properly
acknowledges what God must be, if indeed there is a God, and therefore recognizes that man can not reach Him by any means.
Actually, looking around and seeing awe & wonder
in the natural
world is a well known
acknowledged religious concept that predates organized
religion; Naturalism, related to Natural Law.