3. Relativistic Colonial
inactivity Superiority
Syncretism Imperialism
US = THEM US > THEM
4. “The reality of the world’s great
religions, however, has now become
inescapable for all Westerners… as
devotees of these religions reside
among us as our neighbours, not
merely as figures in textbooks or
missionary photographs.”
Stackhouse, J.G. Jr. (2001) No Other Gods Before Me? - evangelicals and the
challenge of world religions. Grand Rapids: Baker
6. As narcissism has waxed, empathy has waned. In 2010,
researchers at the University of Michigan reported that
contemporary college students scored about 40
percent lower than their predecessors in the 1970s on
tests assessing their ability to put themselves in other
people’s shoes. They were more likely than their
parents’ generation to agree with statements like “other
people’s misfortunes do not usually disturb me a great
deal,” and less likely to agree with prompts like “I
sometimes try to understand my friends better by
imagining how things look from their perspective” and “I
often have tender, concerned feelings for people less
fortunate than me.”