Re: Religion and ethnocentrism

m_c_004b@frank.mtsu.edu ("m_c_004b@frank.mtsu.edu")
Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:22:40 -0500

On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Cliff Sloane wrote:

> How could anyone doubt that a belief that one's own religion is true can
> be anything other than ethnocentrism?

Forgive me for joining this discussion late-
Is the word "true" being used here as a synonym for "valid"?

or more absolutist, as in, "conformable to an essential reality"?

Carolyn

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