tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post5575042017318610357..comments2024-03-25T20:03:03.657-06:00Comments on Καθολικός διάκονος: Happy ‘Id al-FitrDeacon Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01385969740195992108noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-22174989671574321842006-10-22T13:21:00.000-06:002006-10-22T13:21:00.000-06:00Greetings like this one are always useful to impro...Greetings like this one are always useful to improve good relations among religious groups. But I think that if we want to go to the core of the relations among religions and cultures, we have to refer to common goals and measures.<br>I believe that the common goals have to be the what the sociologists call "social indicators", and in general terms are called "quality of life" or "livability". We can even call it happiness. Thre should be a honest competition about which religious group is more successful in creating healthy communities. <br>A community could say to the other: my social indicators about health, mental health, education, economy, poverty, crime, etc. are the following, can you do better than me? I believe that, after all, charity can be measured in this way. A community in which social indicators are very good is a community in which there is a lot of effort to practice human and christian virtues. A well functioning community/city does not happen by chance!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com