just for interest's sake
:)
2007-05-15 02:09:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone. I enjoy speaking and listening with everyone here.
2007-05-15 02:15:15 · answer #1 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Question's not quite clear...but say, a dinner party, with a lot of religious figures, and why? This can be fun!
Sir (St.) Thomas More---great conversationalist; early feminist (he educated his daughters as well as his sons); called "the only honest lawyer in London"; executed for not supporting Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and marriage to Anne Boleyn.
Kwan Yin, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy
Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, a celibate Christian group, noted for its excellence in furniture, crops, and handicrafts---it'd be interesting to ask about her reactions to modern times, both the pace of things and the sexual revolution
Father Drinan (the liberal ,pro-choice priest who had to resign from US politics per Vatican order---and was promptly replaced by Barney Frank, a liberal, pro-choice, Gay leader): would like his opinions about politics & religion entanglement
A couple of theologians/liberation theologists/pro-choice activists who've caught flak from the Vatican
Jesus of Nazareth is an old classic guest---but I want the one who hung out with "the bad crowd" and dissed "power people", and who tended to start trouble of some sort with virtually every sermon he gave....
The Blessed Virgin Mother, and Mary Magdelene---also old classics---and I want their takes on how things REALLY were, not the Hollywooded versions
Deborah, who judged Israel. We need kick-behind females at every good party to stir things up, and an "old-school" feminist would be cool to have around.
St. Paul (formerly Saul)---and I DO hope he's been misquoted and misunderstood over a lot of these years, or that party may get really noisy----especially when he meets up with feminist theologian Mary Daly, who is an A-lister.
(Ditto Martin Luther, the Protestant Reformer.)
Let's get in a couple of really great Torah experts (to be determined); also a couple of scholarly imans from different Muslim groups who can help clarify points. Can see all the lawyerly types in one corner, talking till next year....
Add a couple Pagans from different traditions just to make it interesting.
2007-05-15 03:43:04 · answer #2 · answered by samiracat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why wouldn't you invite everybody? I would think each religion would want to present themselves as open to new people and tolerant to differences in opinion. You can't tell as many people what you're about if you restrict who you invite.
2007-05-15 03:14:22 · answer #3 · answered by Roland'sMommy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Rood from "A Rood Awakening"
2007-05-15 02:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not often but in my point of view anyone can join those party without any invitation
2007-05-15 02:14:52 · answer #5 · answered by rose l 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
16 druggies.
18 drunks.
32 perved vicars.
72 virgins.
1 suicide bomber.
2007-05-15 02:22:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Buddhists who attend the temple near me...they will bring a vegetarian dish for a buffet.
2007-05-15 02:14:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Everybody! Let's party!
2007-05-15 02:13:07 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Vishnu, Confucius. Have a nice long conversation with each of them, and then make them duke it out in the backyard.
2007-05-15 02:14:02 · answer #9 · answered by kncvb21345 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We do it quite often during the summer months.
Our whole congregation! Of course! We have a blast, all clean fun and no one unfriendly!
It's also called assembling ourselves together.
2007-05-15 02:14:33 · answer #10 · answered by Wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋