daigo.org RSSCBS special called “In God’s Name”
My better half heard about this CBS special called In God’s Name and wanted to see it the other day. So we did. I had no idea what was going to be about, but it was fascinating. The show verified a lot of stuff for me, but I also realized how little I know about some stuff. I was baptized at Our Lady Help of Christians Parish in Newton by Fr. Walter Cuenin as a catholic in 2003. It really was not a conversion, since I really had no religion at all growing up probably because my dad’s side is Shinto and my mom’s side is Buddhism. So, it was very interesting to learn about a Shinto high priest, Michihisa Kitashirakawa, Jingu Daiguji (high priest) of Grand Shrine of Ise, who has worked as a successful business man at Toshiba Corp. and he is a great grandson of the Meiji Emperor. Shinto brief is still a very mysterious to me. It is also very interesting to learn about how complex and how many and many different denominations of Christianity there are. Here is a example of major denominational families of Christianity breaks down the branches by numbers, and here is another good answer as to how those break down (i.e. Methodist is part of Lutheran, which is part of Protestant etc…) As a person who was baptized at age 30, I feel like I understand Anabaptists, who think infant baptism is not valid, because a child cannot commit to a religious faith, and they instead support what is called believer’s baptism… Anyway, that is besides the point. I thought one very interesting point that those filmmakers made was that the all of the religions don’t believe in violence (though some believe in retaliation, which made me cringe), and all wants peace. I believe that people’s faith can bring peace on earth. It was a good show and if I have chance I would like to see it again since there were a lot going on and I think I missed a lot of stuff in it.
