Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

Of course the more you love the sinner the more you hate and make war on the sin, just as the more you love the person, the more you hate and kill the cancer cells that are killing the person. Compassion for cancer cells does not come from compassion for persons; it comes precisely from lack of compassion for persons.

Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints. . . He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.