Ironically, The First Thing That Appealed To

At The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century, Every Single Leading Muslim Intellectual Was In Love With The West, And Wanted Their Countries To Look Just Like Britain And France.

Buddhists Talk About Nirvana In Very Much The Same Terms As Monotheists Describe God.

Sometimes I Call Myself A Freelance, I Can't See Any One Of The Great Religions As Superior To Others.

If Your Understanding Of The Divine Made You Kinder, More Empathetic, And Impelled You To Express Sympathy In Concrete Acts Of Loving-kindness, This Was Good Theology. But If Your Notion Of God Made You Unkind, Belligerent, Cruel, Of Self-righteous, Or If It Led You To Kill In God's Name, It Was Bad Theology.

Compassion Is The Key In Islam And Buddhism And Judaism And Christianity. They Are Profoundly Similar.