| Again, just as no
language is perfect as a vehicle of man's thought, so no religion is perfect as a vehicle
of man's experience of God. It is well known that every language has its weak points as
well as its strong points. If its vocabulary is rich, its spelling may be irrational. If
its syntax is logical, its powers of word formation ma be limited. Similarly, every
religion has its weak points as well as its strong points. If its conception of God is
profound, its powers of organization may be weak. If
its moral teaching is high and noble, some of its forms of worship may be
unsatisfactory. A perfect religion, like a perfect language, is only an ideal. So it
is a mistake to suppose that one's own religional one is a perfect revelation of God
and that all other religions are the mere creations of priests, just as it would be a
mistake to think that one's own mother tongue is a perfect means of expression and that
all other languages are mere meaningless sounds. |
