To summarize, two young fish swim passed an older fish who asks them “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” to which one young fish responds and says to his friend, “What the hell is water?” The young return to the old fish proceed to ask numerous questions about water and fins and swimming. (Prothero, 153). Patel uses this story to emphasize the struggle of growing up in a ‘monoculture’ of which only knows one point of view is lacking in concern for any kind of outside point of view or experience. In the context of Sacred Ground, essentially, the less we know about our own religion, the less we know and care to know about other religions. However, this wasn’t the first time I had heard the importance of interfaith
To summarize, two young fish swim passed an older fish who asks them “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” to which one young fish responds and says to his friend, “What the hell is water?” The young return to the old fish proceed to ask numerous questions about water and fins and swimming. (Prothero, 153). Patel uses this story to emphasize the struggle of growing up in a ‘monoculture’ of which only knows one point of view is lacking in concern for any kind of outside point of view or experience. In the context of Sacred Ground, essentially, the less we know about our own religion, the less we know and care to know about other religions. However, this wasn’t the first time I had heard the importance of interfaith