Christ and Religious Diversity, Part 1 (9/30/08)

I know a teenage girl who is a Wiccan. My neighbor is a Hindu. My brother is an atheist. My wife voted for a Mormon in the presidential primaries. You probably have neighbors and coworkers who are Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist. Because of immigration, globalism and other factors, our culture is becoming more and more religiously diverse. How do you relate to people of different faiths? Americans in general embrace diversity. Because, really, at the core, all religions are the same. President Bush said it back in 2003: everyone, "whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God." We all worship the same God, just with different names. But even if there are minor differences between our religions, we all have something more important in common: love of our fellow man. So we shouldn’t worry about our differences, we should focus on the more important things we have in common. That’s what our culture thinks. I, however, do not think that love is the most important thing.