Tuesday, April 27, 2010

All Religions not the same? Really?



New book by Boston University's Stephen Prothero makes the point that all religions do NOT lead to God. There are substantive and real differences that put religions in conflict with one another.

Are scholars finally getting this? Yale, Princeton and Harvard seem to agree according to the book jacket.

This book follows Prothero's excellent study of American religious history called, Religious Literacy

Naturally, the book does not go so far as to say one religion is right and the others are wrong. This is the only possible logical conclusion in my mind. Likely Prothero is of the opinion that none of them are absolutely true. The latter conclusion would make me wonder how I got here without a God, or why He hasn't chosen to communicate with us clearly.