There is today an entire movement built on the notion of sameness – fuelled by political correctness, ignorance and, in many cases, sheer dishonesty. We must tease out the real issues that lie beneath the mask of hypocrisy pervading most interfaith dialogues. Sameness cannot be one-sided: If X is the same as Y, Y must also be the same as X. But how many churches are willing to worship Krishna or Shiva as the same universal God described in the Bible? This gives us a pragmatic method for empirically testing the sameness claim in any instance.
