| Instead of enjoying the fruits of spiritual diversity, | | | | What are we teaching our children: the next |
| the world is suffering because of religious division. | | | | generation? |
| Religion and denominations have as their purpose | | | | When will the 30,000 Christian denominations agree |
| DIVISION! How will we ever be able to bring the | | | | to be tolerant of one another? When will the various |
| world together with such an environment? On the | | | | Muslim segments (Sunni-Shiite) lay down their arms, |
| macro level Catholics and Protestants divide, while on | | | | and when will the radical fundamentalist groups in all |
| the micro level denominations split and divide over silly | | | | religions make love, not war, the dominant lifestyle? |
| issues, or so it seems. | | | | Is this asking too much? |
| Bishop John Heaps put it this way, "Throughout | | | | Just this past weekend the major news story out of |
| history and at present, religion is one of the great | | | | Iran was the rounding up of the Ba'hai leaders in a |
| forces dividing people and preventing or inhibiting | | | | purge. This is the second wave of religious purging in |
| reasonable communication and dialogue leading to | | | | Iran of the Ba'hai faith in the last thirty years. Six |
| cooperation and the solution of problems." No one | | | | Ba'hai leaders in Iran were arrested and taken to the |
| religion has exclusive rights to God. | | | | notorious Evin prison this past weekend in a sweep |
| If those who are supposedly following God can't get | | | | that is ominously similar to episodes in the 1980s |
| along or agree, how can we expect the secularists to | | | | when scores of Iranian Ba'hai leaders were summarily |
| do so? Or, maybe the real question is are the | | | | rounded up and killed. |
| religious really more of a danger to society than the | | | | There's no religion, Christianity included, that's free |
| non-religious? When you look at how many hundreds | | | | from divisive policies. |
| of millions (billions?) of people that have been killed "in | | | | Why is that? How does that demonstate that one is |
| the name of God", or a certain brand of religion, one | | | | "following Jesus"? Tell me how that's anywhere near |
| has to wonder. When will we confess that NO ONE | | | | being a Christian lifestyle! |
| has it all right? | | | | |