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David A. Armstrong

David A. Armstrong is the president of St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida. The university’s Interfaith Leadership Institute is currently developing religious acceptance training, inspired partly by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s educational curriculum, to reduce antisemitism and Islamophobia and foster religious acceptance.

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What we need is religious acceptance training

Religious acceptance training on college campuses would highlight both Americans' religious differences and our shared faith, including the 82% of Gallup poll respondents, who are religious and/or spiritual, and the 47% who are religious.

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