A Worldwide Congregation

Since I founded this Congregation for Religious Tolerance, back in June of this year, the Congregation blog, The Path, has enjoyed over 5800 page views from folks all over the world.  I have linked the blog to Google Translate in an effort to get a message across the language barrier, realizing that Google Translate seems to process on a "crap in, crap out" system that defaults to "good in, crap out" on many occasions.  It is the best I can do with the very limited tech knowledge I have, however, my apologies.

 

The intent of the blog is not to convince or preach.  It is not intended to be argumentative.  Many people lash out with rebuttal, good and bad, yet they have no path of their own.  They seem to be content to sit on a log to the side and comment on how everyone else is traveling their own, personal, path.  This blog is my path.  It is a compilation of thoughts that come to me in the wee hours of the morning.  They are my thoughts about things happening along my path.  My hope is that it will excite you to think for yourself, to ask yourself where you might stand on an offered subject and, if it strikes a chord, to comment back with your own opinion.  Your thoughts assist me as much as I hope my thought will assist you, along your chosen path.  You just might find you're heading the wrong way.  If we can't have constructive conversation we doom ourselves as a people to becoming interpersonally inept and impotent, like the  United Nations or the United States Congress (God forbid).

 

I have received many positive e-mails about my posts, some critical, some with differing views, but all with the right intent.  They were all thinking.  I have other bloggers that follow my posts as well, and a couple of these have asked if I would address specific topics for their readers.  Just this morning I was invited by a fellow minister of the Monastery to join one of his groups where he thought my humble opinions might garner discussion.  A lamb to the slaughter?  I hesitate to think of myself as "fresh meat" but it may be a nice detour on my path.  

 

As always, I invite everyone to comment on what I write using the comment link at the bottom of each post.  For more private comments, and to submit guest posts,  feel free to email me at ulcpastor0@gmail.com.  I will not post anything you write without consulting you first.  Also, please add the address of The Path, www.congregationforreligioustolerance.blogspot.com,  to your favorites and come back to visit often.  I advise you to put it in your favorites because, well, who would want to type that much?  This is the address from hell.  I have to retype it myself half the time due to errors in my "hunt and peck" system of typing.

 

Google Blogger also seems limited in the availability of viewer data it allows access to, whether that is a limitation of the program, or a business philosophy, I have no idea.  Sometimes I get the feeling the numbers are skewed by so many factors.  Having said all this, I have no real idea if 5800 people have actually visited my blog, of if these are marketing scans and a handful of warm bodies actually visit to read the material.  Regardless, I have listed the countries that "viewers" have visited from, according to the data provided.  The top eight are regulars to the site. 

Listed by volume of hits:

 

U.S .                        

RUSSIA                
S. KOREA            
GERMANY          
UKRAINE            
U.K.                         
MALAYSIA          
INDONESIA        
FRANCE             
CANADA             
AUSTRALIA        
ECUADOR          
Cote d’Ivoire     
CHINA                  
COLOMBIA        
JAPAN                 
BRAZIL                 
SINGAPORE       
SPAIN                  
U.A.E.                      
ISRAEL                 
POLAND              
VENEZUELA       
NETHERLANDS