Religion: The dog and the fox.

This is a story I read today, liked it so here is the story as a blog.

We really have so many Beliefs to hate or create identity but rear for love – ‘unconditional love’, or sometime Humanity.

The story is from a book titled “The Prayer of the Frog” volume I, By Father Anthony de Mello publisher Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, Post Box 70, Anand-388 001. India.

The dog and the fox

A hunter sent his dog after something that moved behind the trees. It chased out a fox and corralled it into a position where the hunter could shoot it.

The dying fox said to the hound “were you never told that the fox is brother to the dog?”

“I was, indeed,” said the dog. “But that’s for idealists and fools. For the practical-minded, brotherhood is created by identity of interest.”

Said the Christian to the Buddhist: “We could be brothers, really. But that’s for idealists and fools. For the practical-minded, brotherhood is created by identity of beliefs.”

Most people, alas, have enough religion to hate but not enough to love.