@Pontifex's paragraph straight from the Enlightenment!

“PLURALISM AND DIVERSITY OF RELIGIONS, COLOUR, SEX, RACE AND LANGUAGE WILLED BY GOD” PARAGRAPH IN THE ABU DHABI DOCUMENT ON HUMAN FRATERNITY IS STRAIGHT FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT

The following paragraph in Pope Francis’ [w/Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed el-Tayeb] Document on Human Fraternity has generated a lot of criticism and controversy:

Freedom is a right of every person: each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race and language are willed by God in His wisdom, through which He created human beings. This divine wisdom is the source from which the right to freedom of belief and the freedom to be different derives. Therefore, the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected, as too the imposition of a cultural way of life that others do not accept[.]

– Francis > Travels > 2019 > Apostolic Voyages outside Italy [TO THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (3-5 FEBRUARY 2019)] > A DOCUMENT ON HUMAN FRATERNITY FOR WORLD PEACE AND LIVING TOGETHER

Those criticisms have so far failed to see the connection to the Enlightenment Philosophy which has one of its basic principles as:

In the United States of America

1) THE U.S. BILL OF RIGHTS

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

2) EEOC

It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employment agency to fail or refuse to refer for employment, or otherwise to discriminate against, any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

– EEOC Home > Laws, Regulations & Guidance > Statutes > Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

(EMPHASES ALL MINE)

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"Pope Francis has offered some informal explanations of this statement, but none of these explanations offers an unambiguous interpretation that is compatible with the Catholic faith. Any such interpretation would have to specify that God positively wills the existence only of the Christian religion. Since the statement is a joint statement with the Grand Imam, it cannot be interpreted in a sense that the Grand Imam would reject. Since the Grand Imam rejects the position that God positively wills only the existence of the Christian religion, it is not possible to give an orthodox interpretation to the statement. We therefore understand this statement in its natural sense as a denial of a truth of the Catholic faith. - Scholar [Prof. Claudio Pierantoni] defends letter accusing Pope of heresy: Church is facing ‘most serious crisis’ in history | Diane Montagna, Tue May 7, 2019 – 4:12 am EST | LifeSiteNews