Fliers At The Peace Parade Analysis

Fliers at the Peace Parade In my understanding the Pastor Kent Brandenburg from the Bethel Baptist Church failed to developed a constructive interfaith with the Sikh community in El Sobrante, California. Interfaith allows us to understand other groups faith and views to facilitate a dialogue. Pastor Kent Brandenburg flier was a not a reach out context but a proselytization one. For instance, the flier start by saying "…God is the Eternal Truth. If we were to agree on this, even as in John 14:6, the Lord Jesus Christ said, I am the truth, then neither of us would be afraid of hearing the truth. Bible Christianity and Sikhism contradict in doctrine. Both could not at the same time be truth." This shows that, Brandenburg did not acknowledged the inter religious differences of both religion by using Christians scripture as superior in the flier, making the Sikh religion look as …show more content…
In this case, Pastor Brandenburg destroyed every possible future interaction with the Sikh community when in the conclusion of the flier he used the proselytization context saying "Without believing in Jesus Christ, you, my Sikh friend, will die in your sins, and in so doing, will be condemned to Hell forever." Once again, this type of tension context in the flier by Brandenburg seems to be for the purpose of prejudice the Sikh community and their traditional beliefs towards their god. Besides of the malice purpose of the context in the flier, Brandenburg is also violating the equality of all religions in the United States; because we not just the Sikh community, have the right to practice any religion we want to peacefully coexist and respect with the acceptance of other peoples