Penning for PEN
| Sunday, May 4, 2008 9:41AM | | | | Do You Believe? | Posted By: Marlon James
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Put four people in a room to talk about God (or lack thereof) and sparks are bound to fly. Throw in an audience of New Yorkers who sometimes think they’re panelists themselves and you end up with a call and response which resembles, oddly enough, church. Saturday’s Panel, “Do You Believe?” was a discussion on the values and beliefs that we hold in the privacy of our own hearts whether or not they are projected into the larger world. Man is what he believes, said Chekov. So it seemed off-putting at first that all but one of the panelists believed in any form of God (and he was the moderator). Nothing makes for a stilted conversation than everybody agreeing on the same point,... | | | | | | | |
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