Stephen Prothero on “Separate truths”
Stephen Prothero writes against seeing all religions as teaching the same thing in “Separate Truths: It is misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom.”
When it comes to safeguarding the world from the evils of religion, including violence by proxy from the hand of God, the claim that all religions are one is no more effective than the claim that all religions are poison. As the New Atheists (another species of religious lumpers) observe, we live in a world where religion seems as likely to detonate a bomb as to defuse one. So while we need idealism, we need realism even more. Read the entire article…
Information About Article
- Date:
- 04.25.10 / 3pm
- Category:
- Academics, Theology, World Religions
1 Comment
Add Comment | comments rss [?]