As soon as one becomes a theist, one can start to talk about the attributes of God. The theist, to continue to use Burke's word, normalizes God. Furthermore, my experiences might lead me to a vastly different story of God's attributes compared to another theist's story based on a different set of experiences and web of beliefs. But this challenge of religious pluralism, against any particular religion, is weaker than it seems. At root this challenge is no different than the challenge of agnosticism.
Ethnographers find many more commensurabilities.
The most we can acknowledge is a very limited form of religious pluralism based on our overlapping experience. But, they all agree, it's still an elephant, waiting patiently to become better known. Saxe's poem does not, as is commonly supposed, encourage a radical religious pluralism. By pointing to the very difficult problem of interpretation , however, Saxe promotes merely a limited form of pluralism within theism. Indeed, interpretation of experience seems to be one of the most difficult tasks of human beings.