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From a NY Newsday story:
A high-ranking Lutheran pastor in Brooklyn has been suspended from his duties and ordered to apologize to all Christians for participating with Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Hindus in an interfaith service in Yankee Stadium after Sept. 11.Later in the story:"To participate with pagans in an interfaith service and, additionally, to give the impression that there might be more than one God, is an extremely serious offense," the Rev. Wallace Schulz, the synod's national second vice president, wrote in the suspension letter.How is this sort of fundamentalism constructive for society? I have no problem with religion and spirituality, but this type of dogmatic nitpicking really makes me angry. Isn't this similar to the logic that terrorists use to justify their actions? Sure, the terrorists have taken the logic a little further, but how are Rev. Schulz's comments any better than "Die Infidel"?
Should Reverend Benke have turned his back on the grieving? Should he have not participated? Should he have used that opportunity to decry the assembled "pagans"? As many Christians are fond of asking, "What would Jesus do?" Well, I can't claim to speak for the man (unlike so many others), but my guess is that he would have been moved by the love, not threatened by difference. You know -- "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
Whatever happened to peace, love, and understanding?
:: Keith 17:17 [link] :: ::