Quotes about Religious pluralism
Why do we say, "That's true for you but not for me," when we're talking about morality or religion, but we never even think of such nonsense when we're talking to a stock broker about our money or a doctor about our health?
- Norman Geisler
religious pluralism—the belief that all religions are true.
- Norman Geisler
Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker's.
- Virginia Woolf
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
- Thomas Jefferson
Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her own way to God.
- Henri Nouwen
Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.
- Ricky Gervais
For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.
- Jerry Bridges
We will keep a commitment to pluralism and not discriminate for or against Methodist or Mormons or Muslims or good people with no faith at all.
- George W. Bush
Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.
- Norman Geisler
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.
- Barack Obama
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the alter of a pretended tolerance. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.
- Ravi Zacharias
Staring at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. That may be the tragedy of the beguiling sentiment we call tolerance, which has become a euphemism for contradiction.
- Ravi Zacharias