Sounds a tad orwellian to this casual viewer..
Can never understand how any person can have the audacity to say one person's faith and beliefs are better than the others..
Nothing is absolute.... Gods Grace means nothing if you do not have free will.
These are the elitist views that have isolated the Catholic Church, and driven many folks away..
I said that all faiths are not created equal....which is true. The reality is that religions contradict each other. So not every religion can be right.
The Catholic church believes it was given, through revelation, the source of all truth that leads to salvation as well as morality. Also, it believes that it was given the authority and power to interpret this revelation....infallibly.
It also believes that it has the right to speak on morals everywhere and for all time and to make judgements on what all people do.
75 "Christ the Lord, in whom the entire Revelation of the most high God is summed up, commanded the apostles to preach the Gospel, which had been promised beforehand by the prophets, and which he fulfilled in his own person and promulgated with his own lips. In preaching the Gospel, they were to communicate the gifts of God to all men.
This Gospel was to be the source of all saving truth and moral discipline."32
85 "The task of giving an authentic interpretation of the Word of God, whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition, has been entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone. Its authority in this matter is exercised in the name of ************."47
This means that the task of interpretation has been entrusted to the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter, the Bishop of Rome.
86 "Yet this Magisterium is not superior to the Word of God, but is its servant. It teaches only what has been handed on to it. At the divine command and with the help of the Holy Spirit, it listens to this devotedly, guards it with dedication and expounds it faithfully. All that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed is drawn from this single deposit of faith."48
2032 The Church, the "pillar and bulwark of the truth," "has received this solemn command of Christ from the apostles to announce the saving truth."74 "
To the Church belongs the right always and everywhere to announce moral principles, including those pertaining to the social order, and to make judgments on any human affairs to the extent that they are required by the fundamental rights of the human person or the salvation of souls."75
2035
The supreme degree of participation in the authority of Christ is ensured by the charism of infallibility. This infallibility extends as far as does the deposit of divine Revelation; it also extends to all those elements of doctrine, including morals, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, explained, or observed.77
Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Church, Mother and Teacher
Well of course these teachings are going to drive people away. They're just too hard for some people who want to crave out their God in their own image. But the Lord of lords doesn't bargain with the truth even when people refuse to follow him anymore.
On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?"
Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, "Does this offend you?
From this time
many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
"You do not want to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve.
Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
-John 6: 60-62, 66-68
http://biblehub.com/niv/john/6-68.htm
