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To: stuartcr
As long as the Church recognizes any religion other than itself, isn’t that relativism?

Not a all. The Church can recognize that other religions contain elements of Truth but are incomplete. Here is how C.S. Lewis sees it as explained in "Mere Christianity":

I have been asked to tell you what Christians believe, and I am going to begin by telling you one thing that Christians do not need to believe. If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.

25 posted on 03/25/2013 10:32:16 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: HerrBlucher

Aren’t those elements of truth what they are all relative to?


28 posted on 03/25/2013 10:54:02 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: HerrBlucher
Well said, C.S. Lewis, and well said, Herr Blucher!

You might like mine at #43

45 posted on 03/25/2013 6:51:21 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Takes one to know one, and vice versa.)
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