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Title: Budapest Interfaith Dialogue Highlights Ethics, Faith and Social Media

Brussels, Belgium, 20th Mar 2026 — In a period marked by online hostility, polarized debate and growing concern over the social effects of digital communication, a March 11 interfaith roundtable hosted at the Church of Scientology Budapest examined whether people of faith can be expected to uphold a higher moral standard in the digital sphere and how religion can once again become meaningful, credible and even attractive in the 21st century.Held as the 11th Interfaith Dialogue under the title “A Vision in an Age of Hate: How Can We Make Faith Cool Again?”, the event brought together theologians, clergy, church leaders and religious thinkers for a discussion that moved beyond formal doctrine and focused on something more immediate: conduct. In particular, participants considered how believers respond to anger, provocation and division in an environment where social media algorithms often amplify extremes rather than reflection.One of the opening references was to a recent online initiative by a Catholic professor who called on believers to stand against hate speech and offer a better example in public discourse. That reference set the tone for the evening’s central question: whether faith should be visible not only in ritual or identity, but in the way people communicate, disagree and exercise restraint in difficult public conversations.Participants agreed that social media has created moral pressures and behavioral temptations that previous generations did not have to navigate in the same way. One Catholic theologian noted that modern societies do not always share a common moral foundation, even though freedom of expression remains a fundamental value. In that context, he used the image of “gardening” to describe personal responsibility online: individuals should modera...

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