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Happy New Year!

I think about a lot, because that’s what I do. I used to be a yapper, but now I just write. One of my first grade-school memories is being sent out of the classroom because I wouldn’t shut up. Maybe things don’t change. Maybe, as we grow, we expand our personalities, and mine was to stop talking all the time and actually just put it to good use.

Pluralism

I want to talk about pluralism today.

Pluralism is the idea that all religions are equal. It’s very progressive. It’s understood to be the “tolerant” path, culturally. In a country where we believe in religious freedom, it seems like the next logical step is to have a land with many religions, promoting religious diversity and accepting all religions as equal. Most of us in the United States were raised with it as an unquestioned moral good.

But pluralism is built on a pile of assumptions, most of which are never examined.

The first assumption is this: that all religions are created equal.

I’m coming in hot this morning to tell you, they aren’t.