October 29, 2003
What is the mission?

But for all we talk about the clash of civilizations, we know that the most important global struggle is not between one religion and other, but between fanaticism and tolerance - the two principals that cut across all borders and run through every religion. In the long struggle between thoecracy and democracy, too many so called "Christians" have thrown their lot with the enemy.

If we are to stand for tolerance, it's more than a strategic error to say that my God is the true right and only way. It's a sacrilige to our civic religion.

Adapted from Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe 10/23/03

The man who dares throw the first stone emboldens the timid to pile on like the villagers in Shirley Jackson's story ''The Lottery.''

Posted by justin at October 29, 2003 12:24 PM
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