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a little thing i'm trying out, with lyrics from songs and images from the web, piecing them together to put on this page.
In fact, he was talking not so much about Buddhism as its appeal to some Westerners. And "auto-erotic" was not a good translation.
"If Buddhism is attractive (to Westerners)," he said, "it's only because it suggests that by belonging to it you can touch the infinite, and you can have joy without concrete religious obligations. ... It's spiritually self-indulgent eroticism."
As cardinal, Ratzinger made no secret of his resentment of Buddhism's growing popularity in the West. In France, for example, there are more men studying to be Buddhist monks than are studying to be Benedictines.
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posted by sh @ 12:08 pm
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as a pope, can he say such things about other religions? even if he really feels so, shouldnt it just be kept inside his heart?
some respect we got there.
precisely my point. some respect eh?
if the previous pope is the way we read about him, being lovely to the other religions as well, equal and all that stuff they wrote on the papers, then it's quite saddening that we have such loss.
yea i think he was.
such a sad scene. what a revolution.
revoluuuuuuuution.
i just had to add. that advert is so annoying. :p
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