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[Distributed by Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service. Copyright 1997. These articles cannot be stored on BBS or Internet sites and cannot be sold or placed by themselves or with other material in any electronic format for sale, but may be distributed for free by e-mail or by print. They must be left intact and nothing removed or changed, including these informational headers. This is a listing for Fundamental Baptists and other fundamentalist, Bible-believing Christians. Our goal is not devotional but is TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO ASSIST PREACHERS IN THE PROTECTION OF THE CHURCHES IN THIS APOSTATE HOUR. If you desire to receive this type of material on a regular basis, e-mail us, give us your name, address, and the name of the church you are a member of, and request to be placed on the list. Please note that this is not a free service. We take up a quarterly offering to fund this ministry, and each subscriber is expected to participate. To unsubscribe or to submit a change of address, send your name and the request to fbns@wayoflife.org. This is not an automated list. Changes in the database often require two to four days to activate. Some of these articles are from O Timothy magazine. David W. Cloud, Editor. O Timothy is a monthly magazine in its 14th year of publication. Subscription is $20/yr. Way of Life publishes many helpful books. The catalog is located at the web site -- http://www.wayoflife.org/. The End Times Apostasy Online Database is also located at this site.]
April 30, 1997 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - On Thursday, April 24, the Dalai Lama spoke to a near-capacity crowd of more than 3,000 people attending an interfaith celebration of religious freedom held in his honor at the Episcopal National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
The service began with a call to prayer by a Muslim leader. There were readings from Hindu writings, as well as from the Old and New Testaments. Buddhists led prayers. The Dalai Lama was introduced by the dean of the Episcopal cathedral, the Very Rev. Nathan D. Baxter as a "source of inspiration for so many around the world ... myself among these,'' who is universally beloved for his words "my religion is kindness" (AP, April 26, 1997).
The following quotations from the Dalai Lama's message were given by the Associated Press report of the service:
"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
He urged cultivating "some kind of appreciation or understanding about the value of others' religions,'' to foster understanding.
For those "who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.''
"Basically we are all the same human beings (with) the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being ... The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.''