october 2022
Event Details
The next Book Club meeting will be held on Wednesday, 10/26/2022 at 11am at Eaglebrooke County Club in Lakeland. Our next reading selection is “What Do Our Neighbors Believe?” Second Edition, by Micah Greenstein. Below is the AmazonSmile link to the book.
Everyone is welcome to attend…please join us for a lively discussion and optional lunch!
The current social and political climate makes it easy to benefit from religious misunderstanding. Political and religious leaders create fear of the religious other in order to drum up support for themselves. But the best way to combat deliberate misrepresentation is to provide accurate, timely information about the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Originally published in 2007, What Do Our Neighbors Believe? Second Edition organizes the three belief systems, asking the same questions of each: When and where did each originate? What are the sacred writings? What kind of leaders does each have? What are their most essential beliefs? New sections explore current ethical questions and issues, including the deliberate use of misinformation about Islam to bolster power and generate fear and the recent rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes. By introducing the common aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the authors make understanding their genuine differences and their many similarities much more possible.
