Discovering Our Common Humanity

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So one of the problems that
Christians and Muslims have

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is that we tend to see ourselves
as competing religions.

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In a zero sum game,

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either we're going to win
and they're going to lose

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or they're going to win
and we're going to lose.

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And while we identify ourselves
fundamentally as Christian

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and Muslim we are
locked into that

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so-called ‘clash of civilizations’.

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You can never solve a problem

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at the level of which it's presented.

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The only way you can solve
a problem is by going deeper.

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And the only way we can solve
this problem of ‘us’ and ‘them’,

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between Christians and Muslims,

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is by going deeper to discover
our common humanity.

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Yes we are Christians.
Yes we are Muslims.

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But fundamentally,
we are both humans.

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And it's as we go beyond just our
narrow definition of religion,

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and remember that we are all
created in the image of God

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as human beings,

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then together we can come
together in unity

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and then reflect on this -

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the significance of both our
similarities and differences.