Noah Feldman, Columnist

This Isn’t Bigotry. It’s a Religious Disagreement.

Why all the outcry over a Baptist pastor who believes non-Christians can’t be saved?

May 16, 2018 at 5:02 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

Most religions think they are right and others are wrong.
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So you think I’m going to hell. So what?

Color me genuinely confused by the outcry against Texas televangelist Robert Jeffress, who spoke Monday at the opening of the American Embassy in Jerusalem. Jeffress has previously said that “you can’t be saved being a Jew,” that Mormonism is a “heresy” and that Islam is “wrong.”