Bayer, John F.2019-09-252019-09-252016-08-1919850950-1703http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/156247""Any fool can see that Christianity is the best!" Thus pronounced the educated headmaster, public school and Cambridge, of the Grammar School I once attended. lt was his answer to the problematical issue that has dogged me ever since. At the time, in the mid fifties and to a fundamentalistic youth, I was grateful for his dictum; it served to confirm and reinforce my own naive confessional ism. Now, not only does it lodge in my mind but it sticks in my throat. lt seems to symbolise that confusion of religious conviction and cultural prejudice that was one legacy of his generation to mine. Not that I blame him especially; he only transmitted what he also received. But he transmitted it crudely, proudly, with neither discernment nor compassion"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderChristologyChristianityReligious PluralismcompassionReligious ethicsComparative religion and interreligious dialogueReligious pluralismDogmaticsJesus ChristArticle