A Pew religion survey supports the hypothesis that American tolerance influences theology.
“We are a multicultural society, and people expect this American life to continue the same way in heaven,” [Alan Segal, a professor of religion at Barnard College, commented to to the New York Times.] [I]n our society, we meet so many good people of different faiths that it’s hard for us to imagine God letting them go to hell.
Perhaps it’s not just a “poverty of imagination” that posits a potential tension between secular experience and traditional religious teaching.
Is it possible that an academic professor of religion at Barnard College is unacquainted with large swaths of American society?
I don’t think I’d rest my argument on a singular quote from a singular professor of religion from Barnard College. I find that un”reason”able.