Though Templeton honors all religion, he reserves his strongest praise for two of the most blatantly anti-Christian cults: The Unity School of Christianity and The Church of Religious Science. He commends them for “progress” in religion because “as mind advances, the old forms [of religion] die.” He writes:
“The doctrinal formulations of Christianity have changed and will change from age to age…. Christians think God appeared in Jesus of Nazareth two thousand years ago for our salvation and education. But we should not take it to mean that…progress stopped…that Jesus was the end of change…. To say that God cannot reveal Himself again in a decisive way [through other Messiahs]…seems sacrilegious….”