"Hinduism no barrier to job as priest in Church of England" by Ruth Gledhill

This article serves as an excellent illustration of the influence the relativistic, nihilistic, and irrational postmodern worldview has on the Church. The article concerns the Rev. David Hart’s (a Church of England priest) conversion to Hinduism- a religious and philosophical worldview certainly conducive to the relativism and irrationality of truth deprived postmodernism. Here are some of his quotes:

Mr. Hart believes that his change to Hinduism would be “read in the spirit of open exploration and dialogue, which is an essential feature of our shared modern spirituality”.

“My philosophical position is that all religions are cultural constructs,” he said. “I am acting out God’s story in local terms.”

“The modern world is no longer dominated by any single form of belief. It is a world of religious pluralism. The Anglican Church firmly believes in engaging itself fully in inter-faith dialogues. God is the same irrespective of whether you pray to him in a temple, church or mosque.”

There is nothing wrong with exploring and having dialogue concerning the nature and character of another religious perspective as long as one recognizes that antithetical beliefs (Christian theism- God is transcendent; Hinduism- God is all and all is God) cannot, based upon the God given laws of logic (as reflected by His very nature), synthesize two antithetical beliefs into a “new” synthesized truth.