HOW DO WE LIVE WITH
OUR DEEP DIFFERENCES TO A NEW LEVEL?
Are we to be
content with little sound bites and limited character tweeting, or anonymous
names on blogs issued in degrading speech?
Or, are we to work
out how we live in the public square globally in ways that do justice to our
humanity and the greatness of our democratic past we may have?
Religious liberty is key to SOCIAL HARMONY.
Harmony in China. No big deal; yes, China has diversity with relative harmony – by COERCION.
The real challenge is to have diversity WITH LIBERTY and still achieve harmony.
US has done better than any other in history.
How? First Amendment: strong religious convictions and strong political civility.
Other parts of the world has one or the other. E.g. the West has strong civility; the Middle East strong religious convictions.
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