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All Religions Are Not Alike

Stephen Prothero calls “pretend pluralism” a danger

By Rich Barlow

How does a religion teacher get an invitation to appear, in June, on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report? By writing a book saying that Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, and others have preached about the shared, benign beliefs unifying all great religions — and then dismissing that message as garbage.