Source: The Capital Times
http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=108143&ntpid=1
On a planet soaked with blood for centuries in the name of religion, tolerance can be as hard to find as a cheap tank of gas.
But for a few hours on Sunday afternoon, almost 100 believers of assorted faiths banded together for an interfaith celebration of Thanksgiving at the Warner Park Community Recreation Center.
"There will be no peace in the world until there is peace among the world's religions," George Hinger said, quoting theologian Hans Kuhn.
Hinger, who is Roman Catholic, is a co-founder of the Greater Madison Interreligious Association (GMIA), one of the many groups that sponsored the Thanksgiving celebration.
"We encourage anybody to become part of us, and we discourage trying to convert each other," he said.
From the compelling wail of a Muslim call to prayer to a dance of universal peace, the service emphasized the tenets that unite rather than divide the faithful.