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ah sidhartha, you beat me to it. i too cry balderdash! from the Catholic Catechism:<<Hindus are worshiping Jesus Christ without knowing that. Hindu`s Holy Book Veda says some thing about Christ, and it was written in Sanskrit. The langauge not known by most of the Hindus. Please read it.>>
There’s nothing holy in any non-Christian religion, except possibly Judaism.
842 The Church’s bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common origin and end of the human race:
All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . .331
843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as "a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life."332
844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them:
Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator. Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed to ultimate despair.333
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to say that all beliefs in non Judeo-Christian religions are not Holy is flat out wrong. when wiccans dismiss the Trinity we can say unholy, but when they practice compassion we should recognize that truth and goodness.