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Generating forgiveness, and constructing peace with truthful dialogue: Abrahamic perspectives
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Relationships
How do members of Jewish, Christian and Islamic organizations address unresolved questions of reconciliation and forgiveness? Mending link means forgetting and disposing of old hurtful memories, looking carefully at human needs, and with the love and forgiveness that religions teach, working together to construct peace.
Sociologist C.W. Mills had a deep understanding of the historical reasons for varying directions of development and lack of development (Mills 1959). The emerging issue of our time is the urgent need to come to terms with the fact that religions, especially fundamental arms of some religions, have caused violence and pain in the world. To counteract this, today, role models in the Abrahamic religions are gathering in interfaith to make the world a better place.
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