tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post115761870610564096..comments2023-10-20T22:58:52.569+03:00Comments on Botanist on Alp: On religionstockholm slenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16909107517362691387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13588125.post-1158505570476037842006-09-17T18:06:00.000+03:002006-09-17T18:06:00.000+03:00Terve! Talking about rationality and ReligionChris...Terve! <BR/><BR/><BR/>Talking about rationality and Religion<BR/><BR/>Christianity as the Religion according to Reason<BR/>Ratzinger debates with German philosopher Jürgen Habermas at the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, Germany in 2004.<BR/>Enlarge<BR/>Ratzinger debates with German philosopher Jürgen Habermas at the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, Germany in 2004.<BR/><BR/>In the discussion with secularism and rationalism, one of Benedict's basic ideas can be found in his address on the "Crisis of Culture" in the West, a day before Pope John Paul II died, when he referred to Christianity as the Religion of the Word (the original Greek, Logos, meaning reason, meaning, or intelligence<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>After quoting this, the pope then quoted an academic, Theodore Khoury, who edited the original dialogue, as saying, "In Muslim teaching, God is absolutely transcendent. His will is not bound up with any of our categories, even that of rationality.".<BR/><BR/>Turk Imam Bardakoglu was particularly incensed with the latter quotation.<BR/><BR/>"They used to believe in three Gods," Bardakoglu said. They say Jesus is the son of God. Where is the rationality in that?"<BR/><BR/>Bardakoglu also called for the cancellation of the pope's scheduled visit to Turkey in November.<BR/><BR/>"I wouldn't expect anything good to come from a visit to the Islamic world by someone who thinks like this about Islam's prophet. First he must save his heart from this hatred," Bardakoglu said. ..................<BR/><BR/>Ali Kizilkaya, chairman of the same council, said Benedict's remarks were "extremely regrettable" since the pope had also appealed while in Germany for a dialogue among religions. "This was not a positive thing to say in such a dialogue," said Kizilkaya.<BR/><BR/>"If we were all to start digging up examples from history, then a dialogue would hardly be possible at all."<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=112907" REL="nofollow">Pope criticised for Islam remarks</A>Ecumenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11847427156106725996noreply@blogger.com