Can Eid Mubarak get a BBM Broadcast shoutout?
"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue, it makes it a requirement for survival" - Rene Dubos ("Celebrations of Life," 1981)
If you spend every sunday (and other days) shoving public proclamations of your religious faith down the throats of others but are noticeably silent on a sunday when another religion is being celebrated, you become part of the problem of religious intolerance in a nation where deep divisions along religious lines already exist, albeit unnecessarily and tragically so.
So show a little consistency, and acknowledge Eid Mubarak.
Now of course, you are well within your rights not to, but when you resume your usual one-sided faith declarations tomorrow and beyond, you start to look a lot like email spam.
Happy Eid Mubarak to everyone, religious and non-religious included. Enjoy your holiday.
- Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device on Sunday the nineteenth of August, in the year two thousand and twelve
If you spend every sunday (and other days) shoving public proclamations of your religious faith down the throats of others but are noticeably silent on a sunday when another religion is being celebrated, you become part of the problem of religious intolerance in a nation where deep divisions along religious lines already exist, albeit unnecessarily and tragically so.
So show a little consistency, and acknowledge Eid Mubarak.
Now of course, you are well within your rights not to, but when you resume your usual one-sided faith declarations tomorrow and beyond, you start to look a lot like email spam.
Happy Eid Mubarak to everyone, religious and non-religious included. Enjoy your holiday.
- Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device on Sunday the nineteenth of August, in the year two thousand and twelve
