When I first read about “Sacramentans” at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, I thought it was referring to some sort of Catholic order that I had never heard about. But then I realized it just meant “people from Sacramento.” Sacramento, California .
As 18 doves flew into the skies over the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Saturday night, more than 100 diverse Sacramentans blessed copies of the Quran with roses of love.Again and again they uttered the refrain, “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me” at the entrance to the downtown church framed by white statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. A musician with a white guitar accompanied them.
Representatives of Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, B’hai, Mormon, Sikh, Vedic Druid and Muslim beliefs read scriptures from the great religious texts - including six verses from the Quran calling for all faiths to live in harmony.
My first thought: Vedic Druids have a “great religious text”? (According to Julius Caesar, Druids don’t write down their doctrines .)
Second thought: Burning the holy texts of another faith is uncivil and silly. But should Christians really be blessing the Quran? Doesn’t ” bless ” still mean, “to consecrate or sanctify by a religious rite; make or pronounce holy; to request of God the bestowal of divine favor on”?
Third thought: Oh yeah, I forgot that all religions teach the same thing so what does it really matter, right?
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