A philosophical plague has infected the American mind. It is the promise of pluralism the siren song of acceptance for any and all dejected or false philosophies. Many in our so-called society of toleration may be shocked that a charge would be laid at the feet of such a cherished and pervasive notion. Pluralism is the belief that truth is imparted to a system just because it is a belief that is held.
Pluralism is to philosophy what moral relativism is to ethics.
But the promise of pluralism hardly lives up to its billing. The most damaging aspect to pluralism is that it proclaims true those things that clearly are not. It is dangerous, because for all of its talk of toleration, it condemns as heretics all who will not yield to it. It is false because it makes man the arbiter of truth, rather than God, who is by nature truth itself. Pluralists will condemn such a modest affront to their system, which demonstrates the folly and intolerance of pluralism for it demands acceptance for every belief except for those systems that oppose and deny pluralism.