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Inter-Religious Peace

August 28, 2019 Comments Off on Inter-Religious Peace

All the news stories about people angry at religious attire someone wears, or their beliefs or way of worshiping have made me realize one thing: that we need to educate yourselves. So I propose this to you: 

Sit back in your easy chair and learn about how other people worship.  Read books, articles, and the weekly Religion section in the Sunday paper.  Watch “Religion and Ethics Newsweekly” on PBS or record it for more convenient viewing.  Want to get out of the house?  Visit a synagogue, temple, or mosque, or go to a worship service there.  Attend a class in a certain faith or comparative faiths. Research a faith in the public library or online.  Look in the newspaper under “Lectures” and “Events”  for a festival or celebration hosted by another faith, then go and enjoy yourself.  No matter what you do, learning about another’s faith strengthens your own while fostering understanding in you–and that understanding helps make us all part of the Human Family.

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A Day to Celebrate Being Human

December 10, 2018 Comments Off on A Day to Celebrate Being Human

Seventy years ago today, in 1948, the U.N. adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. That’s pretty good–that many countries agreeing on something. With all the burnings and shootings of people in various houses of worship, with all the greed reflected on corporations taking naturally occurring water to bottle or polluting it, all for profit , leaving the local inhabitants to go to war over what’s left, with the inequities in justice systems ensuring that the poor will live in jail and the rich will buy their way out, with human slavery and degradation–what this declaration means should be taken to heart:

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights empowers us all.
  • Human rights are relevant to all of us, every day.
  • Our shared humanity is rooted in these universal values.
  • Equality, justice and freedom prevent violence and sustain peace.
  • Whenever and wherever humanity’s values are abandoned, we all are at greater risk.
  • We need to stand up for our rights and those of others.

Something worth thinking about today and practicing every day.

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