Altid at være åben – søgen uden forpligtelse

Om den religiøse søgen der insisterer på at altid at være åben, skriver Pave Benedikt: ”Today it is fashionable to regard Jesus as one of the great religious founders who were granted a profound experience of God… this notion of Jesus’ “experience of God” remains purely relative and needs to be supplemented by fragments of reality perceived by other great men.” Pave Benedikts indvending mod denne tilgang er, at vi ender med et religiøst supermarked, hvor alt er relativt og subjektivt og intet er absolut sandt endsige forpligtende. ”It is man, the individual subject, who ends up being the measure: The individual decides what he is going to accept from the various ”experiences,” what he finds helpful and what he finds alien. There is no definitive commitment here.” Pave Benedikt den 16., Jesus of Nazareth, p. 293.