I still feel as a people, we have not explored this powerful tool. Religion was "ABUSED" to divide us as people. Now we can turn the table (and breaking a colonial legacy) and use it to bring us closer.
Let us give it a try....
Shalom!
From: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [mukto-mona] Initiating interfaith dialogue in Bangladesh
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Re: [mukto-mona] Initiating interfaith dialogue in Bangladesh
This is what I have been trying to do here in an "Informal" format. No matter what label we are currently using for ourselves, it is clear we are still attached to our religious identity. I felt, we can use this strong "Natural connection to our faith" to good use to find similarities among us and also supply and educate ourselves about scriptures of our respective faiths.
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Interfaith dialogue is a wonderful idea for Bangladesh. If it could be done properly, religion could be used for achieving the religious harmony. That would be a better use of religion. As it exists now, some half-educated religious leaders are peddling their distorted views as religion to the ordinary folks. Interfaith dialogue could change that equation and free ordinary folks from the grip of these religious fundamentalists.
Secularism dictates equal treatment for all religions. Sponsoring interfaith dialogue by the government will not violate the main principle of secularism. The Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs should initiate this dialogue at the beginning.
Jiten Roy
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