#Ecumenism

Ecumenism is the religious equivalent of a UN summit struggle, attempting to reconcile doctrinal minutiae no more compatible than oil and water. Participants, having labeled each other heretics, nonetheless gather in solemn handshake, performing a sort of folk dance while stepping on everyone's toes. While proclaiming love and unity in lofty declarations, they furtively negotiate seating charts like power-conscious diplomats. Rarely achieving genuine consensus, attendees customarily lament on their way home that they simply deferred the real issues again. Paradoxically, the more they preach peace, the deeper the sectarian grudges become.