It’s my conviction that there are several “non-truths” out there that the younger generation is buying and clinging to. One of them is the idea of a pluralism that is impossible. I was glad to read that someone in the academic world is willing to speak out to the issue that such pluralism actually makes it more difficult to get along.
Stephen Prothero’s God Is Not One, which hits bookstores today, argues that the globe’s eight major religions hold different and irreconcilable assumptions. They may all push the Golden Rule, as progressives like to point out, but no religion really considers ethics its sole goal. Doctrine, ritual, and myth are crucial, too, and on these, writes the College of Arts & Sciences professor, there is no meeting of the religious minds.
The notion of “pretend pluralism,” as Prothero derides it, may be nobly intentioned, but it is “dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.”
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