Additionally, of course, it would be a great day for the world if the Pope would also adopt Surash's admonition to abandon religious absolutism. As usual, I'm amazed at how frequently very sensible and intelligent people can make very foolish and absurd statements about the nature of truth. Those of you who were listening carefully to what I just read and those of you familiar with the suicide tactic will recognize a flaw here. This person is commenting that the nature of religious knowledge is merely relative, not absolute. That's what the Muslim scholar said, and Edward Tabash, who is writing this letter from Beverly Hills, agrees with him.
Religious knowledge is merely relative.
However, Tabash's statement itself is a statement about religious knowledge, making it merely relative, not absolute, according to his own rules. In other words, here is an absolute statement about religion that says one can't make any absolute statements about religion. The argument commits suicide. But there's more than one problem here. Not only is this point of view self-refuting, it's like saying, you can't trust anything about religion except for my view about religion, which is that you can't trust any other views about religion.