Epcot idea

It is early (3:30 AM) in the morning of November 20, 2010  (which incidentally is the birthday of my 3rd son, Nathan Colyar Gates) and I once again cannot go back to sleep because of the stuff whirling around in my mind.  Before the imagination is lost I've got to get the idea down for whatever it may or may not be worth.

While waiting in my dentist's office yesterday afternoon I began to read a book I had checked out from our library in Park City, entitled "A World Without Islam",  by Graham E. Fuller.  I haven't gotten very far in it and I am not sure what final message I may derive.  However, it may be something like this quotation on page 16, "In the end, I hope to persuade the reader that the present crisis of East-West relations, or between the West and "Islam" has really very little to do with religion and everything to do with political and cultural frictions, interests, rivalries, and clashes."  Right now we seem to be concentrating on the negative side of differences.

I am immediately reminded of the series last March of five get-togethers, called "Common Ground", conducted by Pastor Bob Kaylor of our Community Church and Rabbi Josh Aaronson of our Temple Har Shalom right here in Park City.  (I am constantly amazed at the constructive foresight of people in this town.)  These meetings,open to both congregations as well as to the whole town might be described as typical "brain storming" sessions ( in business vernacular) in which only the positive aspects were encouraged -- in this case, the common elements.  I believe I can say most people came away much better informed and encouraged with God's world.

We need similar get-togethers of congregations led by a Rabbi and an Immam and then another led by a Pastor and an Immam.  There is great "Common Ground" whose emphasis may help prevent further catastrophe in the working-out of God's plan for man.

I wish there were a recognized individual who could flesh out the idea of something in the Holy Land like the World Showcase at Epcot Center,  where the religions of the world could individually and peacefully point out the positive aspects of their faiths.  The Holy Land would flourish for all.  

For some reason George Soros immediately comes to mind!  Here is a man both reviled and revered.  Might he be convinced that promoting such an idea is a contribution that he may uniquely be in a position to accomplish?