Hello Steve,

SA>The Parliament of the World's Religions "manifesto" I referred to
SA>in an earlier post was, of course, just something I made up on
SA>the fly, using the type of language found in manifestoes &
SA>declarations.

SA>The actual "Declaration Toward a Global Ethic" issued by the
SA>Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions can be found
SA>at... http://www.cpwr.org/resource/ethic.pdf

Thanks for the url.  I noticed that Hans Kung, who is a Swiss theologian
and dissident Catholic (not sure if he has been excommunicated yet),
wrote the original draft.  Kung is the fellow who keeps telling folks
that he should be the New Pope of a New Christianity.  This is what Kung
said about the election of B16 -

"An enormous disappointment for all those who hoped for a reformist
and pastoral pope." - Hans Kung

Of course, the only "reformist and pastoral" pope Kung would like is
one who would renounce most, if not all, Catholic dogma and doctrine.
Meaning himself.  :)

Anyway, after reading the "manifesto" I'll post a few comments about it.

--Lee


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