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This enabled the ecumenists to side-step the incoherence of Protestantism, and find agreement on the bare bones of what was shared. But this stripping down of the faith also makes the next step in the ecumenical agenda possible: the broadening of this “union” beyond the Christian sects to embrace people of every faith. Since the kind of Christianity that is espoused within the W.C.C. is devoid of real Christian doctrine it became much simpler to make the leap to the idea of a shared spiritual impulse experienced in different forms and beliefs. The W.C.C now openly proclaims its mission as being to respond to the multifaceted, pluralistic nature of religious belief, and its goal is to establish a new fellowship of all human beings, not just of Christians. The consequence has been for a number of contemporary Roman Catholic and Protestant scholars to question the absolute need of Christian faith for salvation: in fact many have begun to suggest that traditional Christology may be a barrier to full and open dialogue with other faiths. In January 2016 the Vatican released a video in which Pope Francis denied the essential differences between faiths, stating that all world religions are “seeking God or meeting God in different ways.” The video includes shots of representatives from many different religions, and the Pope went on to describe Christian fundamentalism as a “sickness” which denied the essential similarity of all religions.
