Religious Pluralism: Seeing Religions Again with Marcus Borg

Best-selling author Marcus Borg, Professor in Religion and Culture, uses a interdisciplinary approach to examine the role and importance of religions and religious pluralism in contemporary life in this presentation at UCSD. [3/2002] [Humanities] [Show ID: 5968]

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[Idahoprospector]

Marcus Borg is to Theism what Deepak Chopra is to Eastern Mysticism, Howard Stern is to humanism, Tom Cruise is to Scientology & John Waters is to film.

[nicodemous52]

Let us not change the Bible according to the age. No, GOD willing let us change the age according to the bible.—(paraphrased) Charles Spurgeon

[Atheistbloggerville]

I knew this whole thing was made up . . . HA!

[jhgosnell]

We have to honor this due to our cultural situation; Otherwise, we will have people fighting over which religion is BEST or TRUE. Even my more liberal Buddhist friends get involved in these more ethnic arguements.

[jhgosnell]

@ChuckMacDerwood "Cultural" Christianity may not be about spirituality. But, Christianity offers at least some form of spirituality I think. As does Buddhism and Islam. The mystical levels in those traditions, the level of actually experiencing God or Emptiness or Love and Compassion, definitely offer a spirituality...the more basic cultural levels may not. Hard to tell...

[ChuckMacDerwood]

@jhgosnell Christianity isn't about spirituality. Buddha is often referred to as "The Serpent" by his own proponents. Religious Pluralism is a great way of seeing just which religions a definitely not right in my opinion, as they all say "Basically we are all talking to the same God. We just have different routes to get to him". Satan reportedly "Goes by many names".

[chazpres514]

I like Prof. Borg and he has many insights here. I just wish he had addressed the rather obvious issue of proselytism. Many religions do it and you don't have to be a "fundamentalist" to recognize that it is an underlying theme throughout the Christian New Testament.

[nicodemous52]

@Bigtombowski Read the bible for yourself rather than accepting what others say about it, then you will have your answer...

[jhgosnell]

I have ttwo more reasons that it's not just Christianity that has God...1. I had experiences of God prior to any involvement in a tradition of any kind, 2. the Zen Buddhists I know seem more spiritually evolved than the Christians I know.

[jhgosnell]

He is already well-grounded in Christian tradition first of all...after that, a pluralistic perspective is workable. Without that, being grounded in some tradition, pluralism just makes everything sort of random.