Angels & Demons, for real?

Only a single day after I finish Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, I get confronted by something more real. Shocking. People who know me a bit know that I'm by far no religious person. I tend to be slightly anti-religious at times. However, I've once spent a week in the community of Taiz� and I've experienced it as very positive. It's a community where people of different religions (and people with no religion at all) can come together for discussion and reflection. I had a great week there. I even attended some of the masses. Fr�re Roger led a mass. Back then (which is a few years ago already), he was not really that good at health anymore, but he was impressive to just witness. The man, from as far as I can see it, has done nothing but good. He actually brings people together that would normally not discuss religious topics with eachother. And so I am quite shocked at his death, but mostly at the manner of his death. I had expected him to not live much longer, but he deserved a nice, quiet death by natural causes, not an attack like this. Unbelievable. [article @ swissinfo]

Only a single day after I finish Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, I get confronted by something more real. Shocking. People who know me a bit know that I'm by far no religious person. I tend to be slightly anti-religious at times. However, I've once spent a week in the community of Taizé and I've experienced it as very positive. It's a community where people of different religions (and people with no religion at all) can come together for discussion and reflection. I had a great week there. I even attended some of the masses. Frére Roger led a mass. Back then (which is a few years ago already), he was not really that good at health anymore, but he was impressive to just witness. The man, from as far as I can see it, has done nothing but good. He actually brings people together that would normally not discuss religious topics with eachother. And so I am quite shocked at his death, but mostly at the manner of his death. I had expected him to not live much longer, but he deserved a nice, quiet death by natural causes, not an attack like this. Unbelievable. [article @ swissinfo]
August 17, 2005