“My God is bigger than yours” Dept.

Robert Thurman does not seem to want a dialogue with Bush supporters.

I've read the Pope's speech and think the parts about "broadening the concept of reason" are far more important than the parts about Islam and violence. The crux of the matter:

The scientific ethos, moreover, is the will to be obedient to the truth, and, as such, it embodies an attitude which reflects one of the basic tenets of Christianity.

The intention here is not one of retrenchment or negative criticism, but of broadening our concept of reason and its application. While we rejoice in the new possibilities open to humanity, we also see the dangers arising from these possibilities and we must ask ourselves how we can overcome them.

We will succeed in doing so only if reason and faith come together in a new way, if we overcome the self-imposed limitation of reason to the empirically verifiable, and if we once more disclose its vast horizons.