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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 53 of 307 Or even another planet. Take it from me, there is no love to be lost between our two faiths. And yet, Klaus and I were under fire every day. Or so we felt. To study for tests, which thankfully were all essay, Klaus and I began to visit all the meeting places of every religion the class covered. Field trips were not required during this course but I believe Klaus and I got more out of this particular course of study than any of the other students because we went to each religion and met the people. We prayed or meditated with them. We laughed with them. We ate with them. We were welcomed by all of them. I was welcomed by people from his faith and he was welcomed by people of mine. During one long and terribly heated sophomoric discussion on the topic of how experiencing all of these beliefs was affecting us, we came to a conclusion. What all of these religions had in common were people and a God. (Sometimes finding their God was a stretch 'but we would manage it). So it seemed it all boiled down to God and people. We made a list of the ten most important things about the God of our faith. When we shared our lists with each other, they were identical. Would these ten items hold true across most faiths? Yes. |