. “When your grandfather is going through a triple-bypass surgery at a hospital started by Jesuits, with a physician team that is Muslim and Jewish, and the anesthesiologist is Hindu, and the person sanitizing the room is a Jehovah’s Witness, and the person who runs the hospital is a secular humanist who grew up Buddhist, that's interfaith work.”
for producing agreement among competing views that was developed in Europe to stem centuries of bloodshed over religious questions.Patel’s book is a call for Americans to stop complaining and get to work. It is a hands-on tour of his own evolution from a snarky and cynical activist to the leader of aPatel wrote in the New York Times in May about how he built an identity in college around being a “victim of racism.
It is at times a manual for building community organizations. But there is also a focus on the U.S. higher education system, to which Patel’s organization has dedicated much of its attention. A former Rhodes scholar, Patel writes in his book that universities should be “civic spaces that specialize in teaching people how to engage in … conflicts through language and politics, rather than violence.
“Educators and the adults on campus have a role to play in telling students that they're responsible for things, not just for breaking things, and not just for telling other people what they're doing wrong,” he said. “We've had a five- or six-year period in American social, political and cultural life which is off the rails. And so I think that there needs to be extra emphasis on not just initiating people into anger, but in shaping them into problem solvers.
Sure, let’s let religion run our country. It’s worked so well I’m so many other countries. 🙄
The problem is the only way religious people feel 'welcome' is if we let them tell everyone what to do. And so when we refuse their orders that's precisely the thing that makes them feel unwelcome.
If enabled, we can see they will accelerate a GOP fascist takeover in a Nano!
So they want to force their religion on people? I will never worship their god.
Enforce moral codes for thee, not for me.
TimSchroeppel “Will the US succumb to religious tyranny?” - fixed that headline for you (p.s.- Yahoo still exists?)
“Can religion keep the United States from sliding into tyranny” by taking control of government and enforcing THEIR moral codes. Sounds a bit like a tyranny to me…
Currently it's religion pushing the US in to tyranny. People seem more radical than ever imo.
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