http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/paul-collins/ Author of thirteen books on belief, ecology and history, Paul Collins is a writer, broadcaster and commentator. He served as a Catholic priest for 33 years and is a former Specialist Editor Religion for the ABC. Residing in Canberra, his most recent book ‘Judgment Day’ confronts the moral and spiritual issues embedded in the interface between religion and ecology. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/religions-not-same-same-but-different/ This is the final in our Adelaide Festival of Ideas series - the brainfest begins today. In this column Paul Collins talks about how important it is to recognise and protect religion pluralism. Richard Dawkins and his atheist mates have done us a real disservice by caricaturing all religion as fundamentalist claptrap. The problem is that by pretending that all religions are the same, he obscures the important differences that have to be negotiated if we are going to live in a more peaceful and tolerant world. This is especially true when we come to negotiate that most important contemporary divides between the West and the Islamic world. At the heart of this is the negotiation between Christianity and Islam, two faiths that really need to talk to each other for all our sakes. But this isn’t going to be easy. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Paul Collins) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/religions-not-same-same-but-different/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/religions-not-same-same-but-different/#item6869 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:40:09 +0000 Paul Collins | Author bios | The Punch