Amid such anticlerical fun, other stories risk a more serious critique of the authority of Christianity: in one, a great lord summons his three sons in turn and gives each a ring, as if to say he has chosen that one as heir. In fact, he has made two identical copies of the original ring, so no one can tell which of the three is real. It makes a good parable for the competing truth claims of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, all thinking they have the one true religion, whereas in reality the matter is undecidable.
