Sallie’s Comments on Dinner With a Perfect Stranger

May 25th, 2013

 

Yes, I wondered about what he said about Hinduism.  At our Global Education Speaker Series, I learned that the Hindus don’t really believe in having 10,000 deities – but rather there are 10,000 names for God. And he picked some rather strange things about Islam to draw out. Islam really has more similarities to Judaism and Christianity than to other religious.  It accepts our scripture as background text. And the Buddhists have helped us learn to listen, to be quiet, to meditate – something I believe Jesus encouraged and practiced. You know how often Jesus went off to pray alone. Heck, he said “Go to your closet and pray.”