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Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don’t believe in an eternal hell.
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Forever Hell Life Myself Neglect Person Purpose Warning
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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Religious Scripture Standard
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Conscious Economics Problem Religious Solve
I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God’s infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia – even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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