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Church, synagogue, mosque planned together for Arabian Peninsula - UPI.com
UPI reports: "The three houses of worship, collectively known as the Abrahamic Family House, will stand together as a symbol of the kind of religious tolerance that the UAE wants to be known for and is meant to be seen as a sign of hope. [...] The church, the temple and the mosque are not going to be museum pieces or tourist attractions but are instead aimed at serving the religiously diverse population of the UAE, where the huge influx of migrant workers means there are hundreds of thousands of Christians -- mostly Catholics -- as well as members of other religions, including an active Jewish community that numbers about 3,000."

Comment: I think this is hugely significant. First, for the spread of the Gospel. As we know, the Arab world is not welcoming to the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. Did you know that there is not a single church in Saudi Arabia? Not one. If one is caught with a Bible it will be confiscated. So, it is indeed significant the the UAE is not afraid to build a Christian house of worship on their soil.

Second, this report was also recommended to me as a sign of apostasy, of the kind of creeping relativism that suggests all religions are equally valid and all paths lead to God. I understand how this report could suggest that narrative and time will tell if this effort does indeed water down the three Abrahamic faiths into a kind of "Chrislam" as some have called it, but that is not where I would find fault. Rather than these three compromising their faiths, I see this more as a PR stunt, one that will not have wider implications for global religious culture. Note that this is to be built on an island, which is by definition remote and hard to access.

I suspect that is something designed to make a statement of toleration but will work out in practice to be nothing more than a PR stunt and not a living breathing site of worship that become a global movement. Time will tell and we will be watching.