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rug

(82,333 posts)
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 10:59 PM Nov 2012

Toronto curling league breaks down religious barriers

Published 52 minutes ago
Leslie Scrivener

As faithfully as Sabbath candles on Friday evening or church bells Sunday morning, dozens of clergy meet weekly to practise a spirited form of interfaith dialogue.

It’s called curling.

Most are from the United Church, but there are sprinklings of Lutherans, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Jesuits and a handful of rabbis and cantors. Some are in their 30s and a few older than 80, and several have shared the ice for decades.

The members of the Greater Toronto Interfaith Curling Club don’t talk theology on the ice, says Rev. Bert Foliot, a Jesuit priest and Rector of Regis College at the University of Toronto.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1289435--toronto-curling-league-breaks-down-religious-barriers

Video at link. There can never be enough curling videos.

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skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
2. And why would those barriers even exist
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 09:41 AM
Nov 2012

and NEED to be broken down in the first place, if religion didn't foster so much hate and division among people?

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
3. Yes the residue of racism, ethnicism, colonialism, nationalism, imperialism and competing economic
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 10:58 AM
Nov 2012

systems are inherently religious. It's so obviously simple.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
4. Did I say that THOSE barriers don't also exist?
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 11:28 AM
Nov 2012

Of course not. Your implication that I did is just more of your habitual dishonesty. You really can't help but just make shit up, can you? And of course when it comes to wrongs, you don't do soundings..except when you do.

The article YOU posted and headlined is concerned with RELIGIOUS barriers, and that's what my reply was directed at. If you'd like to deflect from your own point with more apologetics and more "lots of other things are just as bad as religion" nonsense, feel free.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
6. Speaking of habitual dishonesty, you mentioned only religion.
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 11:36 AM
Nov 2012

Someone has to be stupid or dishonest to imply the historical separations of peoples is religious at the core.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
12. Your OP was about religion
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 04:35 PM
Nov 2012

The article was about RELIGIOUS barriers. Do you need that explained a third time? Or was the article you posted as superficial as you're accusing me of being? I didn't post it, and I NEVER implied that the separations between people are solely religious. I said that RELIGIOUS barriers wouldn't need to be overcome if religion weren't so divisive. But you know that, despite the fact that you're sure to lie about it again (and then argue that your habitual lying is "extraneous&quot

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
7. Yes, it is a cute little article.
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 11:38 AM
Nov 2012

One that has caused our microscopic friend to resort to all caps.

Maybe I can find an article about little old ladies who crochet scripture sayings. I can imagine the outcry.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
11. Lol, no.
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 01:24 PM
Nov 2012

I didn't even know the proverb until you posted.

I do though have SpongeBob stickers all over the back window thanks to my kids when they were younger.

 

skepticscott

(13,029 posts)
13. Lets just says that lies need to be pointed out
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 04:37 PM
Nov 2012

and yours need a heck of a lot of pointing out.

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