Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the…
Read the following passage and answer the item that follows. Your answer to this item should be based on the passage only.
Passage:
With respect to what are called denominations of religion, if everyone is left to be a judge of his own religion, there is no such things as religion that is wrong; but if they are to be a judge of each other's religion, there is no such thing as a religion that is right, and therefore all the world is right or all the world is wrong in the matter of religion.
What is the most logical assumption that can be made from the passage given above?
No man can live without adhering to some religious denomination.
It is the duty of everyone to propagate one's religious denomination.
Religious denominations tend to ignore the unity of man.
Men do not understand their own religious denomination.
Solution
The passage examines how the meaning of religion changes based on the perspective of the observer. Option (c) is correct: when we consider our religion to be the correct one and all others as false, we are assuming that all men are not united by any shared common values or principles, i.e. denominations ignore the unity of man. Options (a), (b) and (d) are not assumed by the passage.