I just finished reading “Made in Detroit” and in it was a reference to something someone at my office had been furious about a while back. St. Jude’s, a Catholic church in Detroit, decided to place likenesses of Mahatma Gandhi, Confucius, and Dr. Martin Luther King behind the alter. I could not tell you what the rationale was . . . .
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That’s refreshing to see some open-mindedness in the church. Great, admirable people come in all religions, even atheists.
i agree that great, admirable people come from all religions, even atheists… Ghandi did some incredible things and Confucius was quite the wise fellow… i admire both of them…
mollika, i’m uncertain about your last statement… were you uncertain as to the rationale about placing likenesses of the said people behind the alter, or the rationale of your co-worker… forgive me because i can be slow sometimes…
if you were uncertain about your co-workers rationale, i may be of assistance… the whole crux of Christianity is that Jesus is God and that He is the only way to heaven… you can call that narrow-minded or stupid or whatever, but that’s what Christianity says… that’s what Jesus said about Himself… and that’s what the overwhelming majority of Christians believe… with that in mind, i can understand why your co-worker would be furious… to a Christian, the alter is where God dwells… to some, it represents the very presence of God… neither Ghandi or Confucius believed in Jesus, so to place those who don’t believe in Jesus (or even those who at times taught things contrary to Jesus’ teachings) would be outrageous… from what i know, the Qur’an tells Muslims to read about Jesus and to respect Him greatly, but trust me, if the likeness of Jesus were to be put in a place that equated Him to Allah or Mohammed, they’d go nuts and rightfully so…
society today is quite confusing because it says that we are free to believe what we want, but if we practice what we believe then we get persecuted for it, or at least antagonized… if a Christian doesn’t recognize Mohammed, it isn’t because he/she is closed-minded, it is because they believe Christian doctrine… same goes for a Muslim… i don’t hold it against a Muslim for believing the Qur’an and not the Bible, i expect the Muslim to believe that… and while i completely disagree with him/her, i don’t think he/she is closed-minded… i think it right that he/she is practicing their faith…
Baliad, I am with you on this one. That is why I was confused as to the rationale. I am glad to see that people are open minded in holding great men, regardless of religious affiliation, in high esteem. However, I do no feel it fitting to have places of worship go against their principle beliefs. I went to Catholic school despite being Hindu and from what I remember there was no other God than Jesus and that no man is equal to him.