“ The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers Ashim Shanker
“ Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments. G.K. Chesterton
“ For reasons that will never be entirely clear, God has a soft spot for religious strangers, both as agents of divine blessing and recipients of divine grace - to the point that God sometimes chooses o… Barbara Brown Taylor
“ We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation. Steve Turner
“ We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so,… Umberto Eco
“ Evangelicals have squandered their cultural capital because they have tried to reclaim a standing in American culture that they never had. The American Founding was a mix of fragmented religious (and… Joseph LaConte
“ It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to a… Christopher Hitchens
“ The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey. William Blake
“ It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the harbor, with something written on it about Give me your hungry...your oppressed...give me pretty much… Anthony Bourdain
“ The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European peoples to… Talal Asad
“ It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and oppression begin from this kind of thinking. Sulak Sivaraksa
“ The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European poeples to… Talal Asad
“ A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy… Joshua Loth Liebman
“ Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr. Marc Cooper
“ America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nea… Fulton J. Sheen
“ But a society in which pluralism is not undergirded by some shared values and held together by some measure of mutual trust simply cannot survive. Pluralism that reflects no commitments whatever to th… John W. Gardner
“ Whenever one comes to the the table for interreligous dialogue, there is what I would call an _ecumenical taboo_ that one has to comply with. The ecumenical taboo_ does not exist in a written document… Namsoon Kang
“ Walter Mignolo terms and articulates _critical cosmopolitanism, juxtaposing it with globalization, which is a process of "the homogeneity of the planet from above––economically, politically and cultur… Namsoon Kang
