Re: Bush states "we all worship the same god"

Kleinecke wrote:

> Rob B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> > In his press conference with Tony Blair in Britain he mentioned
> > his belief that Muslims, Christians, and presumably Jews all
> > worship the same God.  
>
> Some things are true even though George W. Bush said them. Everybody
> who is seriously concerned about the matter agrees that Jews,
> Christians, Muslims, Bahai and probably still more religions all
> worship the same God.
>
> What separates people is HOW they worship God and what additional
> things they believe in. Christians and Muslims agree that Jesus was a
> representative of God; Jews deny that. Muslims believe that Muhammad
> was God's Prophet; very few Christians are willing to agree to that.
>
> Some of the fundamentalist Christian churches have a tendency to
> declare everybody with whom they do not agree non-Christians and
> non-worshippers of the Christian God. Most of them probably think that
> Catholics do not worship the same God as they do.
Aside from the political problem of people using religion, and distorting
it and ideas about God for their various tribal and other purposes, there
has been from the beginning the problem of expressing the experience of
God and of one's relationship to God in human language, which isn't -
even as poetry - up to the task of dealing with an entity that transcends
us and our ways of communicating.  Even the extraordinary people who
founded our religions struggled unsuccessfully with doing so adequately,
even if they have managed to inspire generations since to follow in their
footsteps.

Yes, I believe it's the same God.

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like the children of our bodies, is born from our acts of love.

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