Albert Mohler, President of Southern Seminary, has recently posted a blog about respecting other religions. You can read the full article at http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=3799.
Mohler, as usual, articulates an evangelical position very well. There are many things that we can respect with regard to the people who adhere to other religions, but any belief system that moves poeple in the opposite direction of the God of the Bible and His terms of salvation through Jesus Christ must be rejected.
In addition to what Mohler writes, I would add that the term respect has been misappropriated by a pluralistic, politically correct world that insists that all views are equally true, even the ones that are diametrically opposed. Respecting people as human beings in our conversations and acts of good will is not enough for our relativistic society.
Equally valuing differing worldviews as true is illogical. Tolerance has been over played and proven inconsistent in its use. Maybe the word respect as applied to differing faiths is just the next step in the evolution of a culture that may one day not be able to defend or recognize truth because to do so would "disrespectful." And nobody wants to be disrespectful.
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