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Eventually political dialogue will devolve into textual analysis in dead languages. Christians have argued that the Jews are immoral because they killed our saviour. Must we entertain such blatant nonsense, even for a moment? Clearly couching social debate in the context of personal religious experience is untenable...
...tens of thousands to the Cathedral of St. Mary of Zion, the holiest of holy churches in their faith. The continual chants of "Mariam, Mariam, Mariam" bear witness to the high esteem, higher even than that accorded Jesus, in which Ethiopia's Christians hold the Mother of the Saviour. One woman says this is the day Mary was miraculously transported to Axum. Another says no, this is the day Mary stopped here on her flight into Egypt (a long detour, indeed). It doesn't really matter; the pilgrims believe she is here...
...Redemptrix talk for a half-century; the bishops of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) decided not to give Mary any new titles; and such a dogma could raise "ecumenical difficulties." Translation: Protestants and the Orthodox would go into orbit, feeling Christ has been demeaned as the unique Saviour...
DALAI LAMA Tibetan saviour gets unofficial "Hello, Dalai" from Clinton, boosting his cause and tweaking China...
Christianity faces a peculiar problem in relation to the Incarnation. Was this event unique in the universe, as official doctrine insists, or did God take on alien flesh too? Is Christ the Saviour of humans alone, or of all intelligent beings in our galaxy and beyond...