Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Pluralism

Pluralism by Greg:

The modern pluralist claim that "all religions are basically the same" might be rephrased thus:

“When you remove all of the differences, they all say the same thing.”

It's not the similarities that matter, it's the differences. Classical pluralism implores us to show respect to those with whom we have disagreements without ignoring those differences.

He's right, under the guise of a false sense of "inclusion" today's postmodern innovators would have us believe that differences are not important or at least not as important as "getting along". The latter may be true depending on the particular difference but of course that would never be recognized if we ignore differences or do not define our core.

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