But there has to be some ground rules. It seems to me that religion has given way to secular society making up the rules because religious rules weren't working.
The latter, probably. I honestly don't feel doctrine religions are the victims. There is a history of religion abuse that it's like complaining that someone is hitting you without acknowledging you hit them first.
Who decides the ground rules?
I like this from Ann Wilson Shaef
"When a rainbow gets constricted, it becomes one color—white"
How do you do so with someone else's criteria that we are told to agree in "in order to" live in peace?
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Think of it like RF. Keeping seperate DIRs is a good idea. It gives people freedom to share among their peers with jargon and interest that outsiders may not understand.
It's good we have interfaith so people different Faith's can converse.
The problem is saying we relate to each other insofar we can be in another DIR. As long as we respect others beliefs, we're fine.
I feel it's better to stay interfaith. We're not treading in each other's territory, claiming each other's rights to be in DIR room, but honestly at peace conversing.
Common area rather than common ground.