Religious Differences

For Whose Eyes? My American Gay Sensibilities Collide with Those of a Muslim Friend

Ben Patrick Johnson | Posted 12.14.2011

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Ben Patrick Johnson

Yosra objected to the visual representation of God, regardless of the light in which it was being presented, and asked that I shield such things from her view by selectively blocking any similar content from appearing on her computer screen.

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Karma, Christ, Whatever?

Christian Smith | Posted 11.16.2011

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Christian Smith

We have come in America today to a very different world, which we might call liberal whateverism. This outlook reacts against sectarian conflict by dramatically discounting the claims of religion.

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Why Interfaith Dialogue Doesn't Work -- And What We Can Do About It

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie | Posted 07.29.2011

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Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie

I have been participating in interfaith dialogue as a rabbi and Jewish leader for more than 30 years, and most of the time it just doesn't work. Most of the time it is terribly boring.

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Noa and Amara: A Real Interfaith Dialogue

Rabbi Naomi Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rabbi Naomi Levy

Yes, we are all different and the same. And I believe a true religious experience is one that leads us to see our differences as variations on a theme, variations that make the whole even more breathtaking and beautiful.

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Questions for Stephen Prothero, Author of God Is Not One

Benyamin Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Benyamin Cohen

I caught up with Stephen Prothero, author of God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World -- And Why Their Differences Matter, to chat with him about religious zealotry, atheists, and Islamic pride.

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God Is Not One -- But Religions May Be

Andrew Pessin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Pessin

All religions may well be ultimately the same, Prothero's book notwithstanding -- systems of practices and beliefs that share many of the same attributes and values, including, perhaps ironically, that of not being literally true.

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