Whereas the mutual acceptance of different religious forms is always possible in a polytheistic context, it is in principle run off by polytheism, but also different monotheistic faiths are reciprocally exclusive and tendentially in conflict with one another. A philosophical approach to the problem of religious pluralism cannot achieve its goal by simply pretending that each one of the conflicting religions gives up some of its tenets in order of a better understanding of the others. The philosopher's task is the comparative evaluation of the content of thought expressed by the historical religions from a neutral point of view.
