The heart of a religion
I don’t like the kind of interreligious dialogue that says, “We are all really trying to say the same thing, and here is what it is…” This is usually followed by a rather bland description of what the author thinks all “good” religions “should” be about, and a warning about the crazies who take religion into some dark place, at the peril of the rest of us.
In this context I offer something I stumbled upon yesterday that I think gets to the heart of Christianity, and I am wondering if other Christians feel the same, and if people from other religions would say that this is close to or far from the heart of their own religion.
Jesus is put to the question, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” His response at first is rather prosaic, citing the Ten Commandments in a sort of “Golden Rule” way, but then…
