The Coffee House of Surat

"An attempt at examining religion and how one's upbringing can mould one's religious perceptions. The debate in the coffee house showcases, in many ways, Man's inability to agree with others. But it ends on the idea that Good is omnipresent and that indeed there is a unity in Man, even in the hearts and minds of non believers and people of different religious backgrounds."

Some heavy H.Ed. is happening here. Anyway, here's all the religious beliefs portrayed, in order:

• Persian theologian read too much about God and ceased to believe in His existence
• African slave carried an idol of wood of the fetish tree; the people of his country worship the fetish tree; he believes the God has guarded him from the day of his birth
• Brahmin says that's foolish since Brahma the creator is the only God, and has protected his true priests, the Brahmins, who know the true God, and none but they
• Jew says "...none does He protect but His chosen people, the Israelites" and "from the commencement of the world, our nation has been beloved of Him, and ours alone." And something about gathering His people in Jerusalem and Israel ruling the nations
• Italian missionary says that Good shows no preference to any nation, but calls those who wish to be saved to the bosom of the Catholic Church of Rome, outside whose borders no salvation can be found
• Protestant minister says only those who serve God according to the Gospel, in spirit and truth, as bien by the word of Christ
• Random Turkish office holder says the true faith is that of Mohammed, found now even in Europe and Asia
• Then Chinaman,  follower of Confucius, narrates a story where similar crap happens as in the coffee house; the moral of the story is that it is chiefly pride that prevents men agreeing with each other on masters of faith. Each man wants to have a special God of his own, or at least a special God for his native land. Each nation wishes to confine in its own temples Him, whom the world cannot contain. Let him who sees the sun's whole light filling the world refrain from blaming and despising the superstitious man, who in his own idol sees one ready if the same light. Let him not despise even the unbeliever who is blind and cannot see the sun at all.

So patronizing. But whatever, peace and brotherhood, faith in God etc.