About fifty years ago during my undergraduate days I bumped headlong into a koan that has haunted me like a Chinese hungry ghost ever since—“If there is one god, why are there so many different religions?” At the time, I was a philosophy major enrolled in my first history of religions course who often confused “love of wisdom” with ideology. So I decided I could reason my way to a solution of this koan and in the process reason my way either into or out of Christian tradition. So, I decided to explore the “world’s religions,” a passion that to this day turns me on like a switch intellectually and spiritually.
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