inferior version of the third option. If one wants to be a religious pluralist, Hick is a considerably more rigorous thinker. The tendencies of religious pluralism, in any case, are not in doubt. As Richard Lints put it, “The golden rule of postmodernism is ‘Grant to all other religions the same presumption of truth as you grant to your own religion.’ All religions are created equal.”30 For many pluralists that commitment actually injects a bias toward oriental religions that are characterized by