A Religion of Humanity
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Mirsad reflects on his recent campaign to become President of Bosnia and his current building of a new political party, regarding the violent history of religious conflicts in that country. Bill and Mark discuss with him the possibility of encouraging integrity, trust, and tolerance across religious differences--with reference to Buddhism (involving non-political "emptiness") and Protestantism (with the humanist emphasis on a personal reading of scripture), as well as the Bosnian ethnic factions of Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, and Islam.
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