Thank you for the explanation. Sounds interesting, How do you work - through schools, youth fora, structured or informal interations? (This is one of the few topics on this list that a fuzzy liberal arts guy like me can understand without extra reading)
JAP 2010/1/13 Chew Lin Kay <[email protected]> > I'm involved in a mostly-autonomous, government-supported (with the > t-shirt to prove it!) programme, Explorations into Faith. EiF > organizes dialogues on various topics to provide young people with a > forum to share their views. Past topics include faith and sustenance, > faith and political involvement, faith and the concept of evil.. > > I enjoy getting involved because it's one way of getting past the > dogma: ok, so here's what your scriptures say, now how does that > translate (or not) to how we live? It's also one way of getting past > the propaganda--Singapore is big on touting its racial and religious > harmony, but tolerance and understanding are not the same thing. To > wit: in parochial schools, Muslim students are automatically exempt > from chapel but children from other religious backgrounds will need an > official letter from their parents. This is a response to the > missionary fervour of the eighties when the Christians specifically > targetted the Muslims--it's an understandable, but ultimately > illogical and inadequate response. > > EiF is small, and the criticism that we are preaching to the converted > (har har) is valid, but the progress we make in creating relationships > and channels for understanding is real. Which doesn't explain how I > got involved--two reasons. One to get some facilitation chops, and the > second, a disciplined environment to explore how I meandered to > atheism. > > CL > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:29 PM, J. Alfred Prufrock > <[email protected]> wrote: > > "volunteer inter-faith facilitator" > > > > Please translate. > > > > > > -- > > J. Alfred Prufrock > > > > -- J. Alfred Prufrock "Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman - But who is that on the other side of you?"
