Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Tutu, Desmond (06/ 1/11), God Is Not a Christian, Huffington Post, Retrieved on 2011-06-02Source Material [www.huffingtonpost.com]
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02 JUN 2011
Where We are Born Determines Our Religion
...the accidents of birth and geography determine to a very large extent to what faith we belong. The chances are very great that if you were born in Pakistan you are a Muslim, or a Hindu if you happened to be born in India, or a Shintoist if it is Japan, and a Christian if you were born in Italy. I don't know what significant fact can be drawn from this -- perhaps that we should not succumb too easily to the temptation to exclusiveness and dogmatic claims to a monopoly of the truth of our pa...
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Desmond Tutu makes a thoughtful point about how our parents determine our religion, which means we should not claim a monopoly on truth by our own faith, which was determined by accident.
