Comments on: Stephanie Lin http://irdialogue.org/articles/attachment/syl-2/ The website of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:48:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Richard C. Streeter III http://irdialogue.org/articles/attachment/syl-2/comment-page-1/#comment-10006 Richard C. Streeter III Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:10:55 +0000 http://irdialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/SYL1.jpg#comment-10006 I am now 67 years old. My experience in school was very similar to yours. I attended an all Italian, all Catholic school, even though it was a public school. On religious day everyone would go for religious instructions at the big Catholic Church two blocks away. I was the only kid left in the room. The other kids would try to get me to go with them just to get out of school, as they did. Since I am the son of two ordained ministers of the Gospel, I did not choose to go. My parents instilled in me a great respect for all religions. Long story short, I am the visionary and founder of The InterFaith Forum in Rochester New York, established during the Gulf war crisis. (1991) I now live in Las Vegas and am attempting to establish an interfaith dialogue here. If our nation ever needed interfaith interaction, it is now a summation point I am now 67 years old. My experience in school was very similar to yours. I attended an all Italian, all Catholic school, even though it was a public school. On religious day everyone would go for religious instructions at the big Catholic Church two blocks away. I was the only kid left in the room. The other kids would try to get me to go with them just to get out of school, as they did. Since I am the son of two ordained ministers of the Gospel, I did not choose to go.

My parents instilled in me a great respect for all religions. Long story short, I am the visionary and founder of The InterFaith Forum in Rochester New York, established during the Gulf war crisis. (1991) I now live in Las Vegas and am attempting to establish an interfaith dialogue here.

If our nation ever needed interfaith interaction, it is now a summation point

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