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Thomas Merton talking down to "mere" Pagan virtue while acknowledging that virtue has no necessary relationship to faith, which is taken as the only condition required for salvation, is a massive self own. Unless he wants to claim that Hinduism is always pharisaical, of course.
What does it mean to be saved if it doesn't entail being virtuous? Some sort of concrete but supernatural experience? In the end the foundation of this sort of thinking is just "mystery" which answers nothing in this life and hence can't answer anything in the next life either.
Christian absolution is an angel descending from heaven to say "there there" to a bloated rotting corpse. It's just a massive disconnect from anything grounded, or any intersecting bits of logic.
The gnostics are mocked for not solving the problem of evil but at least they notice and explain THE EVIL. Same with the Buddhists. The tantrics in particular go a step further allegedly and cut off hope of escape. Where is there in man something supernatural that can be saved?
When you ask me to take for granted some hidden part of my own self that accounts for everything important about myself, you place yourself in the camp of Freud, Jung, Marx (via theories of class consciousness and false consciousness). Or rather, they learned this trick from you
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