The idea to modify religions by so called “rational” argument has failed; better try to apply ancient Mediterranean pagan heuristics to make practitioners more tolerant of others through the sharing of holidays. In Lebanon, since the war, people have adopted the ancient Roman practice to celebrate other people’s holidays and sacred values: When the pope came to Beirut a few months ago, he was cheered by veiled moslem women. During Ramadan, many Christians break the fast “iftar” with Moslems. Nothing works better than 1 commerce, 2 breaking bread. The rest is academic “tawk”.Again, the solution to these complex problems are neither by abstract means nor by violence, but through simple ancient heuristics.

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