Trouble is Alan in Nth Africa the trade is quite large so no oil will
make no difference. They still need sex slaves at least.

Religions can all get along well.

People - not always.

And people that do not get along well with others, often quote "religion" as their excuse.

Excellent article. I think the key to inter-religious dialogue is to ask the question: what do we have in common? Quite often we concentrate on the question: what makes us different? Both questions are important, but often we forget to ask the question about commonalities. One we do, then the differences often don't seem so overwhelming. BTW, interesting reference to Jesus being the way (John 14:6 from memory). I think you're correct, in that we need to look closely at verses like this and think about what exactly does this mean.

Yet one religion has a policy of offering conversion, accepting second
class citizenship or death.
Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them. Hmmm.
Just getting along ?

'Can't we just get along?'

No, we bloody well can't, the religions themselves say so.

If you think we can then you haven't paid attention to what the religious texts are actually saying.
If you paid attention to the actual scripture you'd know some religions have laws that forbid getting along.
So 'Can't we get along?' is just your own foolish ignorant religious beliefs talking.

Here's the proof, if this info doesn't wake you up then nothing will.

http://youtu.be/tFuwnH6vruA

http://youtu.be/MoOrOZH049o

What comes to mind from the David's article is the idea "hate the sin, love ther sinner." I think if more people regardless of their religion could adopt this kind of view or a simular one, then that would help us all be able to get along. Not nessassarily agree with eachother but at least get along.

After all even if one person thinks another person's religion is wrong the idea is to love the other person not their religion. Even if you think a religion is full of lies, or brings people to sinful living/ wickedness/ or any other term or badness, then this idea would be about hating the lies, hating the sinfulness, or hating the religion that caused either; but to still love the person regardless of the religion, the lies or the sins.

Religions are too different to get along by agreeing with eachother. I think the only real way for religions, athesim, or anyother philosophy to get along, is to hold the idea of love the sinner regardless of the religion or the sin.

The second thing to add though is to make this a personal decision, and not to expect anyone else to make this choice in thinking. That way you don't have to leave yourself open for violence from others. Be as cautious as a snake but as harmless as a dove type of thing.