BOSTON – A runaway Red Line subway train with about 50 passengers aboard that rolled out of the Braintree station without a driver Thursday morning, may have been the result of "operator error," state officials said.
After the driver got off to make an adjustment, the train traveled through several stations before the power was cut to the third rail, disabling it in North Quincy. No passengers were injured, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Whittaker Chambers wrote that "the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God." Pluralism is the manifestation of such indifference because it admits that belief is subjective and personal rather than an expression of existential reality. A believer cannot profess to be a good Jew, Christian, or Muslim while admitting to the theological truth of another faith. But, while different faiths cannot simultaneously represent the truth of ultimate existence, belief in one faith does not demand intolerance toward others.
Avery Cardinal Dulles confronted this issue in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, in a lecture entitled "Christ Among the Religions." There, Dulles acknowledged that we live in a society that "includes people of many faiths and of no faith at all," and examined four possible models by which different faiths can relate to one another: coercion, convergence, pluralism, and tolerance.
