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At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

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Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

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Almost all religions provide opportunities for human beings to convince themselves of their own righteousness, to speak in the name of God, and even to go to war on God's behalf. This 'blasphemy of certainty' is also rife among secularists who in their case have not God but science or the proletariat on their side.

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Pretending that the world's religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our world more dangerous. What we need on this furiously religious planet is a realistic view of where religious rivals clash and where they can cooperate.

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Stephen Prothero

Stephen Prothero

Born: November 13, 1960 (age 65)

Bio: Stephen Prothero is a professor in the Department of Religion at Boston University and the author of eight books on religion in America, including the New York Times bestseller "Religious Literacy."

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