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3/18/2008
6:07:57 am EDT
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Breaking Bread And Boundaries
Author: Stephanie Simon Source: Los Angeles Times
Title: BREAKING BREAD AND BOUNDARIES
The four couples were just settling into small talk over appetizers when Kenneth Holloman cleared his throat.
"Would the group permit me to ask an impertinent question?" he said. "How many here believe there's a hell?"
It was not your typical icebreaker.
But then, this was not your typical dinner party.
The couples, strangers to one another, had been brought together by Common Tables, a nonprofit that aims to nurture interfaith friendships.
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| This Is Nothing New | Mar 19th. at 3:51:38 pm EDT
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Moonlight Wolf (Bradford, England) - Email Me
I know of a couple of local interface centres but then again I'm from Bradford where there is a high Muslim population, along with some Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jews and Christian Scientists.
However the way it works over here is that the centres are pretty much drop in, learn about other religions and speak to people of other faiths. With the turmoil that's going on between members of different faiths, is it any wonder.
This movement may last but I agree with other posters that only those who want to learn to accept difference and diversity.
Those who are ignorant and intolerant often want to remain so as they believe that they are right and everyone who disagrees will either burn in Hell or is an idiot.
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| Statistics? | Mar 19th. at 12:28:53 pm EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
From a Statistical PoV, half the couples were of a single minority religion, without even mention of whether they were Orthodox, Conservative or Reform. I don't suppose they had a strong representation of Married Roman Catholic Clergy, at that dinner, but I wonder at how many Brethren of Mythras?
Real Interfaith Discussion wouldn't be so Unitarian.
Hell? Life is Hell, and the secret of Reincarnation is, your heart will gravitate where heaviest.
Arawn
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| The Only Thing Is, | Mar 19th. at 7:27:59 am EDT
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Eran Rathan (Old Town, Maine) - Email Me
and they mention it in the article, is that the people interested in this are those who are more open-minded to other religious traditions already...as the reporter says, "preaching to the choir."
It's not going to make much of a difference until you can get the ones who are not normally going to be more open-minded to sit down and talk like rational human beings that anything will happen.
Eran Rathan
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| A GOOD IDEA.... | Mar 19th. at 3:23:56 am EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
but who knows how long it will continue? I certainly hope this is the beginning of a trend. And we in the Pagan Community need to get involved in this - to dispel the idiotic misconceptions about The Pagan Path and what we follow. One can only hope!
Love to all
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| Ha! | Mar 18th. at 5:09:17 pm EDT
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Ezri (Centennial, Colorado) - Email Me
Wonderful article - I've actually been looking for this group since I found (and lost) one of their business cards.
Pretty neat!
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| I Love It! | Mar 18th. at 1:47:17 pm EDT
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TechieSidhe (Palm Harbor, Florida) - Email Me
I love it! I think that when you see people of different religions in a "normal" setting like dinner instead of in an official religious place or setting, it shows you that the other person is "real", that they do the same things you do.
Although I must say, the BEST religious conversation I EVER had was at a ISKCON (Hare Krishna) ranch in Florida. It was me, two other Pagans, some Mormons who showed to check it out, and 3 Krishna devotees. We were there visiting and learning, and we all just sat and had a good healthy conversation. No proselytizing or converting. The Mormon kids had never met Wiccans or Pagans either. It was great.
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| That Just Sounds Wonderful... | Mar 18th. at 1:43:14 pm EDT
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Errapel (Lowestoft, England) - Email Me
I know it's only a drop in the ocean, but it's still wonderful to see people of different faiths getting together like that. Wonder if there's a group in my area.
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