religious-political dialogue
On Facebook I have been having a semi-religious-political dialogue with one of my friends regarding the building of Park51 Islamic community center/mosque two or three blocks from Ground Zero in New York. I have been reading some articles about it, and I found a quote from one of them that struck me.
A Tennessee reverend, Bob Old (from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-silent-dignity-of-solemn-remembrance-drowns-out-the-voices-of-the-crackpots-2077181.html): On the issue of the Koran burning, Old insisted: "This will show how strong my convictions are. I believe other religions are a threat to my beliefs."
My first thought was... Wow, your beliefs must not be very strong then.
Sometimes at campfire where I work, we sing a closing song called "Humble Yourselves". It goes:
Humble yourselves in the sight of (insert some natural phenomenon or plant or animal or other natural thing)
You've got to bend down low and
Humble yourselves in the sight of (etc)
Ask it what it knows and we shall lift each other up
Higher and higher we shall lift each other up
...
Once we got a review from a parent with the group that said something to the effect of "Your song threatens my Christian faith" and all of us were like... wow, to have ones faith shaken by a song? To have so little conviction...
Sigh.
A Tennessee reverend, Bob Old (from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-silent-dignity-of-solemn-remembrance-drowns-out-the-voices-of-the-crackpots-2077181.html): On the issue of the Koran burning, Old insisted: "This will show how strong my convictions are. I believe other religions are a threat to my beliefs."
My first thought was... Wow, your beliefs must not be very strong then.
Sometimes at campfire where I work, we sing a closing song called "Humble Yourselves". It goes:
Humble yourselves in the sight of (insert some natural phenomenon or plant or animal or other natural thing)
You've got to bend down low and
Humble yourselves in the sight of (etc)
Ask it what it knows and we shall lift each other up
Higher and higher we shall lift each other up
...
Once we got a review from a parent with the group that said something to the effect of "Your song threatens my Christian faith" and all of us were like... wow, to have ones faith shaken by a song? To have so little conviction...
Sigh.