But religion had lost its aura of forbidden fruit. During those five years, my listeners had seen mass assemblies of Jehovah's Witnesses and evangelical TV programs by American-style Pentecostal preachers. They had read polemics about church property restitution, they had met Hari Krishnas in saffron robes, they could find Rushdie's Satanic Verses sitting beside Discussions with Cardinal Ratzinger in bookstores. You speak of the necessity for interreligious dialogue and tolerance. In the Age of Aquarius, no single religion dominates any more.
All religions give the same account.
They're merely ships to convey us to the coast of spiritual knowledge, where faith is no longer required. All claims of truth and binding morality must be deconstructed. Everything is relative. I answered, as best I could, in the spirit of post-Vatican II Catholicism, which assumes and relies upon secular humanism to be its dialogue partner. But I fear my words were somewhat lost, for my required partner did not show up.