Let’s be honest . . . we don’t like to offend people and we want people to like us.
Because of this, we let some pretty silly ideas go unchallenged in our culture today.
One perennial offender is the notion that all religions basically teach the same thing.
If anyone is to find the truth about God or ultimate reality, then this myth has to be dispensed with quickly.
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New York Times columnist Ross Douthat hits the nail on the head:
“The differences between religions are worth debating. Theology has consequences: It shapes lives, families, nations, cultures, wars; it can change people, save them from themselves, and sometimes warp or even destroy them. If we tiptoe politely around this reality, then we betray every teacher, guru and philosopher—including Jesus of Nazareth and the Buddha both— who ever sought to resolve the most human of all problems: How then should we live?”
It is out of a sense of false tolerance that we think we are actually loving one another if we never challenge ideas that we believe to be false. In addition to this liability, we often lack the courage to (respectfully) say what needs to be said.
How to Respond to This Slogan in Conversation
With that in mind, the first thing to do when encountering this claim is (more…)
I also will miss his razor sharp whit and creative ability to turn a phrase along with the way he would go after whoever was arguing before the court to defend a point rationally. Every time an opinion was delivered from the Supreme Court, I always wanted to see what Scalia had written because I knew his opinions would be rooted in the text of the constitution (i.e., textualism or originalism) instead of the prevailing cultural winds of our day (sometimes refereed to the “living and breathing document approach”).
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But let the buyer beware. You should know that the Ivy league cannot deliver meaning and purpose. And to be fair…most colleges can’t either. Why?
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