Discovering Our Common Humanity
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So one of the problems that
Christians and Muslims have
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is that we tend to see ourselves
as competing religions.
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In a zero sum game,
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either we're going to win
and they're going to lose
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or they're going to win
and we're going to lose.
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And while we identify ourselves
fundamentally as Christian
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and Muslim we are
locked into that
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so-called ‘clash of civilizations’.
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You can never solve a problem
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at the level of which it's presented.
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The only way you can solve
a problem is by going deeper.
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And the only way we can solve
this problem of ‘us’ and ‘them’,
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between Christians and Muslims,
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is by going deeper to discover
our common humanity.
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Yes we are Christians.
Yes we are Muslims.
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But fundamentally,
we are both humans.
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And it's as we go beyond just our
narrow definition of religion,
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and remember that we are all
created in the image of God
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as human beings,
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then together we can come
together in unity
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and then reflect on this -
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the significance of both our
similarities and differences.
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So one of the problems that Christians and Muslims have is that we tend to see ourselves as competing religions. In a zero sum game, either we're going to win and they're going to lose or they're going to win and we're going to lose. And while we identify ourselves fundamentally as Christian and Muslim we are locked into that so-called ‘clash of civilizations’. You can never solve a problem at the level of which it's presented. The only way you can solve a problem is by going deeper. And the only way we can solve this problem of ‘us’ and ‘them’, between Christians and Muslims, is by going deeper to discover our common humanity. Yes we are Christians. Yes we are Muslims. But fundamentally, we are both humans. And it's as we go beyond just our narrow definition of religion, and remember that we are all created in the image of God as human beings, then together we can come together in unity and then reflect on this - the significance of both our similarities and differences.