The problem is perhaps best raised by recalling the classic story about the Two Chaplains: Of differing Protestant denominations, they had served for a year in the same infantry company during the First World War and went through a lot together. As they were being mustered out, they exchanged words of heartfelt appreciation for having known and served with the other during a difficult time. “Before we say ‘goodbye’,” one added, a bit sheepishly, “I have to acknowledge that knowing you has forced me to change my ideas about some things that are very important to me. Until I met and got to know you, I believed that people who worship as you do were agents of Satan. I'm embarrassed to say that, but you can appreciate how I would think that way. Well, I was wrong. In fact, I now realize that we both worship the same God – you in your way, and I in His.”

As the saying goes, that joke would be pretty funny were it not for the fact that it isn't funny at all. “You still don't get it, Reverend,” seems a wholly apt, and pretty mild, response to the “embarrassed” chaplain.