I heard a stimulating talk today at UniBible talks, "Aren't all religions the same?"One issue that the speaker, Andrew Brown discussed, was the common argument by analogy about the Indian story about the six blind men who come across an elephant. All of the men use touch to develop their own "truth" about what the elephant is. These truths conflict with one another. Andrew (following Lesslie Newbigin and Tim Keller as described here) argued that it is arrogant to assert that all followers of religion are "blind" and that the person using the story has the "vision" to see the true "reality" of the "elephant", i.e, God. Further problems with the argument are discussed in this post at everystudent.com.
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