Dear Georgios,

How kind of you to accept my special invitation to a dear friend.

You are right in what you say. Religion means re-unification, not division. I was born in the Catholic faith and remain a Catholic, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t recognize that we Catholics are most frequently intolerant. I am pretty sure Our Lord did not want that for us, but to accept instead all genuine forms of sincere adoration. He Himself was not a Christian, for all I know. His apostles had various beliefs themselves. There is every reason to think John was a Gnostic, and very likely Thomas was a Gnostic as well. Some of them were Jewish; some seem to have been Essenian. There was even a publican among them, and publicans were reputed to be atheists. And He united all of them under a Teaching that in a way was new but, at the same time, eternal.

How impressive it is that Jesus the Christ was born over two thousand years ago but his teachings and life are still influencing the history of the humanity. I am also sure that despite of all the apparent hatred and division among the different denominations and sects, God’s plan for that half of the world that in some way or other follows His teachings, and through this half to the whole world, is somehow being fulfilled.

Sincerely,

Luis Miguel Goitizolo