Wednesday, 14 January 2015

OFFICIAL CHRISTIAN DEFINITION OF RELIGION (Letter published in Dom Post, January 20)

Peter Rodriguez (to the Point, January 14) conflates behaviour and belief. The ‘mayhem occurring throughout the world’ is a behaviour expressing, at root, psychotic pride which is an abuse of religious belief.

I refer Rodriguez and Christopher Hitchens who think ‘religion poisons everything’, to the official Christian definition: ‘Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world’. Who could quarrel with that?

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