Inter-religious Communication
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Reply to Thread 1
In the first thread, your argument is clear as it’s based on individuals who share different religious views and seeks to establish meaningful conversations. Further similarities presented to assist in expanding the theme of meaningful conversation among different religious groups. Your good content was mainly on the quoted scripture, which emphasizes a need to accommodate others in establishing meaningful conversations and being open-minded. You could improve the thread by further focusing on the similarities that exist between the two religious’ groups to reinforce the idea of having a meaningful conversation. I believe that offering further insight into the similarities would add to the currently valid and reliable thoughts to be incorporated to complete the deficit (Howard, 2015)
Reply to Thread 2
In the second thread, you focused on contrasting the two groups based on their beliefs, the idea of belief in heaven by Christians, and the Buddhists not believing any of that. Further, you stated the problem hence forming the basis of striving to meaningful conversation. Buddhist believe in the cycle of reincarnation, and Christian’s belief in Jesus was a good point in trying to indicate that beliefs should not interfere with meaningful conversations. The point was on flexibility where you admitted we are all right by believing in what we do and allowing for different thoughts, which offer greater insight and expand current knowledge and offer authentic solutions and concrete opinion.
I would have improved the thread by quoting scripture that reinforces the views of Christians regarding Jesus and the existence of heaven, such as Genesis 1:27 says, “So God created man in his image. You would have taken a stand to establish credibility.
Reply to Thread 3
In this thread, the focus you made was mainly on establishing meaningful and understanding conversation, without necessarily getting upset with the individual with an opposing viewpoint. The question was best answered by stating the need for divine intervention from the scripture to gain the power to accommodate others. I would improve by phrasing the first sentence in a more fair manner; that is, I would try to reason with individuals with a different opinion as meaningful conversations strive to problem-solve (Saiful, 2018). To add to, you can improve the thread by being more positive as an individual and acknowledging that different beliefs might interfere with meaningful conversations regarding different groups.
References
Howard, L. W., Tang, T. L. P., & Austin, M. J. (2016). Teaching critical thinking skills: Ability, motivation, intervention, and the Pygmalion effect. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(1), 133-147.
Saiful, Prayogi,Leny,Yuanita.(2018).Critical Inquiry based Learning. A Model of learning to promote critical Thinking among prospective Teachers, 43-56