{"id":7848,"date":"2010-11-08T22:48:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2010-11-08T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T14:48:50","slug":"paradox-of-religious-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/11\/paradox-of-religious-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradox of Religious Harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/17.jpg?resize=132%2C127\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"127\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happens if a religion<br \/>\ninsists that it is the only true religion?<br \/>\nHow is inter-religious harmony to be upheld<br \/>\nbetween this religion\u00a0and others?<br \/>\n(Yes, some still practise such religions.)<\/p>\n<p>Agree to disagree, yes.<br \/>\nBut what if this itself is disagreeable to that religion,<br \/>\nthat even endorses using violence to wipe out other religions?<br \/>\nThere is an extreme\u00a0limit for inter-religious harmony then.<br \/>\nTo give way all the way is not the way of true harmony.<\/p>\n<p>This is where secular common sense<br \/>\nmust come in to mediate,<br \/>\nand decide if\u00a0a religion that does not support harmony<br \/>\nshould be considered\u00a0a religion at all.<br \/>\n(Perhaps it is physical\/spiritual terrorism?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><br \/>\nReligious Tolerance in the&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/intol_bibl.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/intol_bibl.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens if a religion insists that it is the only true religion? How is inter-religious harmony to be upheld&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,104],"class_list":["post-7848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-harmony","tag-violence","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}