Originally Posted by asaris

Tecoyah -- if you're going to use such an inflammatory word as hypocritical, at least use it correctly. Wyckd's statement might be insensitive, but it's certainly not hypocritical.

And, in fact, the RCC and most Christian churches do not teach that non-Christian religions simply sprung out of nowhere, as if they were entirely false. They are all a falling away from true religion, and so are false in some sense, but they all (or almost all) contain some truth. In fact, since we all have a certain approach to God which often biases us, we can often learn a lot about true religion and true spirituality by studying these other religions