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Edited on Sat Nov-15-08 02:44 PM by 20score
From Saudi Arabia to Salt Lake City, religious leaders of certain groups, specifically the ones known for being critical of other faiths or people with no faith, have decided upon on a new tactic to promote religious tolerance. Saudi Arabia is using a UN session on interfaith relations to promote a global law against blasphemy, and the Supreme Court is hearing a case where people from the Summum religion have been denied the right to place a sculpture in a park that already displays the Ten Commandments.
Do It Our Way, a group of fundamentalist religions formed to counter the Interfaith Alliance, had called a press conference to announce the new strategy of shifting the onus of tolerance - to other’s that call for tolerance.
“Well, technically it’s the same thing we’ve always done, but we’ve put a new wrapper on it, better PR. Like the marriage thing; see, if we disapprove of a marriage, that means it ruins ours,” said David Tabernacle of the Church of the Latter-day Saints. “We’ve learned a lot from Bush, what we do now is use a new title that says the opposite of the program; like Clear Skies and Healthy Forests, well, now we’re bringing Religious Tolerance. Um, that’s off the record, of course”
“You’re supposed to ask that before you speak,” said a reporter from the LA Times.
“Damn!” said Tabernacle.
“Look, there’s no conflict here,” said Imam I Ronic of Saudi Arabia. “As long as you all stay within the boundaries we’ve set, everyone is free.”
“But how is dictating rules to everyone keeping with the spirit of religious tolerance?” asked Mary Apparent from the Washington Post.
“Look, how can we be free if you don’t act like we want you to?” said Tabernacle with a smirk. - “Got you with that one, I see.”
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