Comparative religion Quotes

“Wikipedia: Comparative religion”

“In the longer run, some education in comparative religion is the solution, or at least a central part of the solution.”

“The comparative study of religions is an academic discipline which has been developed within Christian theology faculties, and it has a tendency to force widely differing phenomena into a kind of strait-jacket cut to a Christian pattern. The problem is not only that other 'religions' may have little or nothing to say about questions which are of burning importance for Christianity, but that they may not even see themselves as religions in precisely the same way in which Christianity sees itself as a religion.”