Posted on Mar 29, 2019
Peace Feast: Breaking Bread With Our Muslim Neighbors
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"Earlier this week, my wife Wendy and I responded to an RSVP to attend a local “Peace Feast” where Christians and Muslims are invited to come together and share a meal in hopes of building relationships and forging a path to understanding and peace.
The meal is scheduled for this evening, only a few hours after the news that a white supremacist went into a Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand and shot 49 people to death, wounding dozens more.
So, our conversations tonight will be overshadowed by this tragedy, and our need to find hope, and forgiveness, and healing is more essential than ever before.
At this moment, I cannot think of anything more I can say to my Muslim neighbors than, “I am so sorry.”
My hope is that we can hold hands, bow our heads, and pray together for unity and peace to flood the hearts and minds of Christians and Muslims during this time of grieving and pain.
Words are useless now. Only simple, honest and sincere acts of kindness and repentance matter. Our only hope is love. Our only path is forgiveness. Our only future is together"
The meal is scheduled for this evening, only a few hours after the news that a white supremacist went into a Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand and shot 49 people to death, wounding dozens more.
So, our conversations tonight will be overshadowed by this tragedy, and our need to find hope, and forgiveness, and healing is more essential than ever before.
At this moment, I cannot think of anything more I can say to my Muslim neighbors than, “I am so sorry.”
My hope is that we can hold hands, bow our heads, and pray together for unity and peace to flood the hearts and minds of Christians and Muslims during this time of grieving and pain.
Words are useless now. Only simple, honest and sincere acts of kindness and repentance matter. Our only hope is love. Our only path is forgiveness. Our only future is together"
Peace Feast: Breaking Bread With Our Muslim Neighbors
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Most Interesting... Just Be Careful... And Know What They Are Hearing In The Closed Sessions of Prayers... Hang in There
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SFC George Smith I Have Nothing to Fear. My Favorite Muslim Grandma doesn't wear a "HIjab" She Wears a Beret, Her Husband Abe and I Usually spend our time Bragging about Our Grandchildren in the Pacific Northwest. Just as Much as I am a Liberal , Pinko, Catholic they are Hippy Pinko Muslims (Although Abe is Quite Orthodox and Whenever Possible I've Never Seen Him Miss the Call to Prayer). Also Perspective is Everything I Spent Time in Dubai where I've seen Shia, Sunni, Whatever Let their Hair Hang out Literally. Religion Doesn't Separate Us. Idiots and How they Interpret Religion Do.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SFC George Smith More Perspective the Only One that Actively Tried to Kill Me Mixed Fascist Nationalism with Communism with Islam with Terrorism. Even He Failed because I'm Still Here and He is Dead! I Have a Problem with Extremist, Islamic, Jewish or Christian. So Called "Fundamentalist" "Nationalist" "Zionist" "Wahabist" When Your Religion Gives You Preference Over Others and Wishes Me Dead? We're Not Going to Get Along. Just How I Role!
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