Interfaith Group

If someone tells me they believe something is true but cannot prove it, I can speak with that person. I can say, “You have beliefs, and I have beliefs. I can’t prove mine, you can’t prove yours.” I can ask that person, “Just what sort of a world do you think these beliefs will take us to?” That’s a great measuring stick. Because if both of us agree on the same goal, we can work together.

But if that person tells me that if I don’t believe what they believe it’s because I’m ignorant, stupid and insane…well, you get the idea. I can’t see that as a route to a happy world.

All this means that no one has to give up their beliefs in order to live peacefully with everyone else. No one has to even compromise in the slightest. That would be nothing less than a death knell to the magnificent patchwork of wisdoms and cultures that multiculturalism purports to preserve.