Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫22h ago

Little Englanders foaming at the mouth about Islam in Britain, you sound like a 75 year old pished guy in a bowler hat and orange sash ranting in the pub about the looming threat of the papacy.

Ordinary Muslims you'd encounter in the UK are no more sinister and alien than ordinary Catholics. One day a week they maybe (or not) go to a fancy building to talk about God in a way that you don't connect with. Please try to be normal about that rather than let it eat your whole identity.

Show threadChris L18h ago
@petealexharris when I was a kid I happened to read The Religions of Man by Huston Smith. As the title indicates it was typical mid 20th c Western academic writing, but he had a gift for sharing something of the interior reason why people value their religions as a practitioner. After each religion was covered I would feel a bit of regret that I hadn’t been brought up in the covered religion. 1/2
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@petealexharris It shifted my default for talking about religion to seeking to understand the good people experience from their path to the ultimate, away from arguing over the differences from my path. (As a confirmed Episoscopalian with liturgical opinions that shift helps every week at church, much less when talking to my neighbors or traveling). 2/2
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