TONG: In Indonesia about eighty percent of the Muslims are moderate, and only a small percentage are very radical. We know that in other places it is not possible but as for now, we are very thankful to the Lord for that. But that was defeated and we can still say what we think and what we believe and this is a great privilege that we enjoy now.
Just recently we had to fight against a law proposed by some people that the evangelicals could only express their views about homosexuality within their temples, not in public. But I don’t know for how long, of course, because there are forces working, operating to finish and to end that. So we are enjoying this freedom of speech and religion in Brazil and in Latin America as a whole.
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But even though they think like this, I can still go to my TV or radio program and say, “There is only one way: Jesus Christ,” and nothing will happen to me. Of course as you preach that Jesus is the only way, that will shock people who don’t believe in truth or who are sold to a pluralistic view that every religion will lead you to God. And I can even say openly that I am against gay marriage or homosexuality, and nothing is going to happen to me. I can go to a public street and just preach openly about Jesus as the only way. Even though the state is secular, still, there is no resistance. We do enjoy freedom of speech and religion. LOPES: Latin American and South America-and I mean Brazil, mainly-we have been privileged at this time. So even though we are in a different context than Britain or the rest of Europe, we are constantly dealing with this difficulty for ordinary people to come to terms with exclusive claims of Jesus and the exclusive way of salvation. It has shifted into an inclusivist Christ, a pluralist Christ, and a multifaceted Christ to the point that, while still maintaining the forms of traditional Christianity, it has quickly adapted to become a multi-religious type of offer. Mercy has no limits, it has no place for an exclusive Christ. This is the keyword of the present pope: mercy. In our twenty-first-century context it has been substituted with a mercy-alone gospel. DE CHIRICO: The seal of the gospel that my city and my nation have received as the standard form of the gospel was a Rome-alone kind of gospel.
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