A great erudition in the service of tolerance

Odon Vallet is a true humanist. The inheritance received tens of millions of euros have been quietly managed and made this man one of his usual annuitants tasteless and odorless. It has instead created a foundation, with this money, to enable disadvantaged students to Paris, Benin and Vietnam to further their education.

This foreword illuminates the spirit of active tolerance of this Catholic author specializing in the study of religions.

His book "Small glossary misconceptions about religions" just right to eat, calmly, debate on religions. Discuss in good faith is not to go on misconceptions and propagate them. The lexicon is built around shock sentences, more or less misconceptions. The author explains to each historical context and is compared with other religious currents. The notes are concise and informative.

Example of misconceptions:

1 / "Christianity is a Western religion."
"Jesus was an Asian. Of course, he lived in the" Asia Minor "which once meant the Middle East. (...) When the churches are emptying in Europe, they are full to the Philippines or Korea."

2 / "Jew": "One is born Jewish, one does not become one." "Fair enough, almost a generation of false millennia."

3 / "Excision of Muslim women is a requirement in Islam."

"It is, in principle, a double error. The original Islam says nothing about circumcision is also practiced on non-Muslim women. This is a confusion between geography and theology as partial excision (clitoral) or complete (infibulation or small labia) is practiced mostly in African countries of Eastern or Western Muslim majority. But this practice, also attested in Asia, is before the arrival Islam in these areas (...) "

I also noted some interesting developments on Buddhism, Hinduism, non-violence, submission, the Chosen People.