Interreligious dialogue

The best way to make a case for religious freedom is through anthropology, not theology or political theory.

"We can find an Islamic warrant for religious liberty with an Islamic warrant for human dignity" .

The problem with much Western discourse about religious freedom is that it's premised on relativism.

"The theory of relativism gives liberty only to relativistic religion" . "Believers of a recalcitrant sort who actually think that what they believe is true aren't allowed to express themselves in public."

Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the pope's nuncio in the United States, agreed that anthropology is fundamental.

"The most fundamental question, it seems to me, is this: Who is the other, according to my religion? If he or she is an enemy, I will take one attitude. If it's somebody to be converted, I will take another. But if he or she is a creature of God, the same God to whom I pray, then all human rights will be recognized."

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