From Let My People Think: “Secularization: Its Control and Power”
Pluralization: A competing number of worldviews available to our members and no one worldview is dominant
Pluralization does have some strengths
It compels the individual to take serious note of what he or she actually believes of eternal value and why he or she believes it
Pluralization in the world of cuisine is fantastic
It is wonderful to hear counter perspectives and be compelled to measure and evaluate your own – sometimes to the point of discomfort
The big qualifier is if plularization is extrapolated into meaning moral relativism – that’s when the danger signs begin
Peter Berger: “Pluralism breeds a philosophical relativism in which the average person stands confused as to if any single voice among the contending options lays claim to the truth. We appear as a reed shaken in the wind.”
Think of the statement: “all truth is relative”, what does that mean?
If all truth is relative and the statement stands as it is given, does that statement include itself or exclude itself?
If it includes itself then it must mean that even that statement is relative, which must mean it isn’t always true
If it excludes itself, it is providing for itself a nimbus for positing an absolute while denying they actually exist
Asians, Middle Easterners, Orientals – even though some of their worldviews will sometimes bring in the idea of pluralism, they know very well when it is being violated and where there are untradable absolutes in all of them
All major religions are exclusivistic at their core
