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      If we can come together every four years for the Olympic Games, we can surely come together and show our traditions and religions to each other, but in a non competitive way. It’s a real challenge, and a necessity for the world’s future. To come together means to respect each other people’s cultures, their dress, foods and places of worship.

      Well, let’s hear it from the horses mouth, we have some delightful people here who would like to share with you about their cultures.

      We all have our differing beliefs, and it would not be a good idea to say there is only one God. The Baha’i religion suggests a tolerant approach. The Moslems say they’re God is Allah, the Christians and Jews say ‘I AM; is their God, the Buddhists say their god is likened to Budda, a God of gold, apart from being alive as a prophet and the hindu’s believe in Karma which is a God which reincarnates the spirit from generation to generation, the worship of cattle and caste system, and have more than one God. Confucius was more concerned with defining social relationships and was able to absorb primitive ancestors worship, which still survives.

      There is also the time factor where ther Jews were first to appear, 5000 BC, the Hindu’s were next in 3000yrs BC, and then 565-483 BC being when Budda was alive. The Christians which appeared and formed our system of time from BC to AD, and transformed earlier Judaism, the Jews, of course. The Islamic movement which appeared about 632 years later. Confucianism, round about 400 BC, involved studies of crime and morality and the revision of ancient Chinese scriptures.

      We will now hear from different peoples and how they get along.