Diana L. Eck is an American scholar of religious studies and professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University. She is also the Director of <em>The Pluralism Project</em> at Harvard.
In this excerpt, the order in which she presents the items serves a rhetorical purpose. The items are listed in order of how "accepted" they are in mainstream American society. Christianity (a cross) is well-accepted, while Judaism (yarmulke) is still omnipresent, but more contentious. As she goes on, the list would appear more and more exotic to American readers. The question therefore is successful in testing the limits of religious plurality.
Answer:
... John and Mary are equal.
Explanation:
We can use basic logic reasoning to complete this sentence. We have two premises that, being true, lead to a conclusion.
Premise 1: All citizens are equal.
Premise 2: John and Mary are citizens.
In that case, John and Mary are equal. They are citizens, and all citizens are equal. At no point, we are told John and Mary are an exception to this fact. So, John and Mary's being equal is the only logical conclusion from the two premises we have.
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His own drawings contradicted everything he felt about the things found in the chest. When all of the things he found in the chest disgusted him and proved to be worthless to him, his drawings had elicited feelings he had from his childhood. He soon realizes how important those things in the chest were especially that a part of his childhood was found there.
