end of the second Christian millennium, Christianity is rooted in deep crisis, the crisis is based on the truth of his claim. This crisis has a double dimension: First there was more and more the question of whether the concept of truth a meaningful way could ever be applied to religion, in other words, whether it is given to man, the real to recognize the truth about God and divine things.
finds the man of today is much more likely in the Buddhist parable of the elephant and the blind man again:
A king in northern India once had all blind people of the city gathered in one place. He then left the congregation an elephant show, so they know how to procure an elephant. The blind man touched him on all sides. One felt his head and cried. "Thus, an elephant" Others felt the ear or the tusk, the trunk, the trunk, the foot, the rear, the tail hair. Then the king asked the individual: "How is an elephant?" And depending on which part had touched her, she replied: "He's like a woven basket, a pot (...) (...) like a plow rod, (...) as a memory, (.. .) as a pillar, like a mortar (...) (...) like a broom. "Then they got into a fight, threw another and fought with his fists to the delight of the king.
The conflict of religions today seems like this dispute the man born blind. Born blind because we are the secrets of the divine over, so it seems. If we want to describe something we see only a part of him, never the whole. This shows that each person sees the world differently than his Fellow human beings.Source: Weitz, Chris (2007): weltreligionen.basiswissen to have a say: in demand. Loewe Verlag.
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