ACCEPTANCE DESPITE DIVERSITY

Good day everyone!

I want to welcome you all to this momentous event, the “Interreligious Dialogue Day” a
project that aims to raise awareness and inspiration of accepting the diverse world of
beliefs and practices when it comes to faith.

Today, I might want to share my view on what absolutely this term 'Acceptance in
Diversity' means. Doesn't it feel odd when we hear the word Acceptance – which may
mean being one and Diversity – which implies contrasts, together in one articulation?
Really, it feels! It makes us wonder about how it is feasible that there is a typical factor
to obviously contrasting ideas.

At this moment, let me share to you a quotation said by UN diplomat Kofi Annan. He
said “We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we
all belong to one human race.”

What he said is what made me realized that our world may be composed of different
religions. There are Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Judaism and a lot
more. All of these religions may not be followed by equal numbers of people, they may
not be similar in practices but all need to be respected equally. There should be no
discriminations as we all just want to give worship and praise to our Gods.

Strict variety is the way that there are huge contrasts in strict conviction and practice. It
has consistently been perceived by individuals outside the smallest and most
disengaged networks. Be that as it may, since early present day times, expanding
information from movement, distributing, and displacement have constrained smart
individuals to think about more profoundly diversity in religions. Generally, pluralistic
ways to deal with diverse religions state that, inside limits, one religion is as good as to
some other. Conversely, exclusivist approaches state that just a single religion is
interestingly significant. At last, inclusivity hypotheses attempt to control a center course
by concurring with exclusives that one religion has the most worthwhile likewise
concurring with pluralism that others actually have critical strict worth.

We have different societies, languages; we implore various types of God in various

manners and follow strict writings of various religions, but let us be reminded that this
diversity may lead to the achievement of harmony and peace if we speak to these
distinctions together and commend our solidarity.

Let me end this speech by leaving this saying from Dalai Lama, “Whether we like it or
not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or
poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or
another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like
everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.”

Thank you and have a good day with acceptance and unity.