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O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
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Religion without dogma?
Fr. Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative
Monday, October 25, 2021
It is nonsense to say that all religions are of equal value. Some religions are superior to others. Chartres Cathedral is not on a par with a squalid voodoo hut. Shall we compare Michelangelo’s Pieta to Kali the Destroyer, and must we pretend that the terrifying religion of the Aztecs is as sublime as a Mozart Mass? I think not. Indifferentism in religion only serves to weaken all religion, for when the dogma and the distinctive devotions go all we are left with is a kind of vanilla-pudding spirituality.