ABSTRACT
Different religions offer differing diagnoses and cures. Given thatcriterion, there are a good many religions. The diagnosis that aparticular religion articulates asserts that every human person has a basic nonphysical illness so deep that, unless it is cured, one’s potential is unfulfilled and one’s nature cripplingly flawed. Then a cure is proffered. The diagnosis and cure assume1 (or, if you prefer, entail) the essential structure of a religion’s view of what there is, at least insofar as what there is has religious importance.
