By Catholic standards, the religions of the world can be ranked by how much truth they teach.

- Catholicism is first, with Orthodoxy equal except for the one issue of papal authority.
- Then comes Protestantism and any "separated brethren" who keep the Christian essentials as found in Scripture.
- Third comes traditional Judaism, which worships the same God but not via Christ.
- Fourth is Islam, greatest of the theistic heresies.
- Fifth, Hinduism, a mystical pantheism;
- Sixth, Buddhism, a pantheism without a theos;
- Seventh, modern Judaism, Unitarianism, Confucianism, Modernism, and secular humanism, none of which have either mysticism or supernatural religion but only ethics;
- Eighth, idolarity; and
- Ninth, Satanism.

To collapse these nine levels is like thinking the earth is flat.