This book is about the second greatest conversation in the world.The greatest conversation in the world is the conversation betweenourselves and God. The name for that is “religion.” It means “relationship.”The English word religion comes from the Latin word religare, whichmeans, literally, a binding-back relationship.The second greatest conversation in the world is the conversationamong the different religions—that is, the different humanconversationalists in the first and greatest conversation. The name for that is“comparative religions.”The first conversation is vertical. All religions converse with someoneor something greater than ourselves. The second conversation is horizontal.One of the issues in that conversation is whether one religion is greater ortruer or better than another. Are the different religions in the worldincompatible or compatible?This book considers that question of comparative religions. It is also avery quick tour through the essential teachings of seven of the world’s greatreligions to gather enough data for the three characters (and the reader) toform a reasonable opinion or theory of comparative religions, a theory thatjudges the data. The questions in these dialogues are motivated by anattempt to find that unfashionable thing called truth.Truth is ultimately what God thinks... Clearly the religions ofthe world are different, playing and singing different musics. The questionof comparative religions is hardest of all because it is the question of howthese different musics sound to God. Are they in harmony? Does one carrythe lead? Are they in cacophony?Spoiler alert: we are not God, therefore we will not find the final answerto the question of how the different religions sound to God. At least not inthis life. So it is a wild goose chase. We will not catch the goose. But a wildgoose chase is a very good thing to do anyway. And along the way we mayfind some very important answers to questions that are only a little bitless ambitious.