Word: pluralists
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This is nutty. It has kids looking for God in all the wrong places. For the purposes of a pluralist society, the Bible is not about fact. It is about values. If we were a bit more tolerant about allowing the teaching of biblical values as ethics, we'd find far less pressure for the teaching of biblical fables as science...
...Western literature and classical music, has a long record of opposing religious extremism and speaking out on behalf of the Christian and Chinese minorities in Indonesia and has even recommended opening diplomatic relations with Israel--much to the fury of more conservative Islamic groups. "Gus Dur is a pluralist by nature," says Islamic scholar Nurcholish Majid. "Islamic law would be far from his mind...
...pluralist society, the value we place on cultural identity sometimes clashes with the value we place on tolerance, as Hepps's letter highlights. Her recommendation, though, is simplistic and counterproductive. In a society that correctly teaches us that our commonalities as human beings are more important than our differences, children are bound to see their parents' condemnation of intermarriage as thinly-veiled racism rather than a legitimate attempt to protect the culture...
...True peace in Ireland can only happen in a pluralist society where people are judged for their human worth rather than for their religious or political beliefs," Hutchinson said...
...past, Greenberg has refused to discuss the presence of a God in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Last night, however, he discussed the change in his pluralist mentality...