After arranging for a program, speakers, schedule and arrangements, I was thrilled when 75 senior citizens signed up moreso when their after-class comments made me feel I had done something really worthwhile. Our speakers, from the local Baha'I, Muslim and Jewish congregations, also were impressed. Another class will be in April, featuring speakers from the Buddhist, Hindu and Greek Orthodox communities of Brevard County. For one thing, I have always found religion a very interesting subject, and enjoy learning more about it. Perhaps coming from a minority religion, where I often had to explain things to others, had some bearing on this although as a child growing up in the Bronx, New York, I thought the whole world was Jewish for some of my childhood years.
Ignorance breeds bigotry.
None of us can change the world, but each of us can work to change things within our own little corners of the world. We are all children of one Supreme Being. We are all taught the Golden Rule in one version or another. We all pray for that day when peace will come to the world. Yet most wars, past and present, are fought over our religious differences.