1. Big Question: Can United States tolerate religious diversity?
America the Diverse?
Big Question:
Can United States tolerate
religious diversity?

2. Bill of Rights: 1st Amendment
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, …

3. 1st Question Is the United States religiously diverse?
Answer the question with evidence not anecdote.

4. Does America want to be diverse?

5. 2nd Question:
Are Americans offended by religious diversity?

6. Why are some Americans offended by religious diversity?

7. John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for No religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace You may say  I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one I hope some day you'll join us And the world will live as one

8. Is Lennon correct?
Would we be better off without religion?

9. Tolerate: verb
allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference.

10. Big Question, again:
Can United States tolerate religious diversity?

11. Absolute Truth
inflexible reality: fixed, invariable, unalterable facts.

12. Relativism
the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute.

13. Group Challenge
In your table groups your task it to come up with one example of absolute truth. Your example must adhere to the definition.
Then each group will attempt to disprove the other groups examples. For each successful attempt to disprove, that group will receive 1 point.