[Vision2020] Religious Diversity Education

Luke lukenieuwsma@softhome.net
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:17:43 -0700


Mr. Moffet:

> You imply the US military is somehow amiss in offering a religiously
diverse
> support system for the men and women who fight to defend us?  So a man or
> women who is risking their life for us who happens to be Islamic or Jewish
> or Hindu should not receive this religiously diverse support?
> What "reforms" are you suggesting?

    The teaching of the truth, of course. Unless we all say and believe and
act according to the same ideals, we cannot function together. Look at our
nation; you have Democrats, the largely non-Christian liberals who have
adopted "loose" standards, and you have Republicans, the commonly Christian
conservatives who still have semi-rigid standards of decency and morality.
And at times the nation is simply chaotic.
    Practically every president since Reagan (and some before him, too) has
had a constant war with a Congress led by the opposing party. The reason?
the two main groups have radically different beliefs. It has become so that
whenever one party initiates a particular movement, no matter what the
movement may entail, you can count on the other party doing their level best
to negate any progress made. Yet this is only one example of the morality
clashes that we have all the time.
    The world isn't all just fine and dandy like you make-believe. We cannot
all "just get along" and believe what we want to believe. There are endless
clashes; the problem isn't that people just don't tolerate each other, it is
that their beliefs are inconsistent with others. That is why there have been
so many religious wars, that is why there is such a rift in this nation. And
there is an answer to this problem.


 All the best,
Luke Nieuwsma