Why think any religion is the "correct" one?

Question

This question has been asked many times, and responses have come in varying degrees of quality. This is specifically to those who hold Christians to be arrogant for holding to their belief as true to the exclusion of all other religious viewpoints.

I'm curious to know what responses you might have against this short clip by Dr. William Lane Craig on this matter? Link of 1.28 MB .mp3 is below:

http://www.sirvera.org/var/audio/arrogantbelief.mp3

Please note: I'm just asking if anyone can raise any rebuttals to the objections raised in the audio clip. I don't think I've heard any good arguments against it yet. Thanks!

Timurlenk C - Oddly enough, though this response is given by a Christian philosopher, Muslims too can use it comfortably. It's a refutation of the religious pluralist's argument that a person is "arrogant" for believing that their viewpoint can in fact be true to the exclusion of all others.

Answer 1

It might be totally unpalatable to hear: "Some religions instruct people to act in ways that do not please the True God, and say things about the True God that are not true." It's unpalatable, but more logical than saying religions that contradict one another are both completely true.

As the hymm goes, "There's a wideness in God's mercy."

The exclusivity of Truth goes down a LOT more easily in light of one other important fact. God WANTS us to get it right, and reveals himself to everyone who confirms the sincerity of his search for Truth by obedience to such light as he already has. And he'll even reveal it to self-righteous religious terrorists like Saul of Tarsus, too!

Answer 2

Becose there are evidences..for example in Quran you cant denie the scientific facts which are found to be true..visit this page than we will open discussion:
A) The Quran on Human Embryonic Development

B) The Quran on Mountains

C) The Quran on the Origin of the Universe

D) The Quran on the Cerebrum

E) The Quran on Seas and Rivers

F) The Quran on Deeps Seas and Internal Waves

G) The Quran on Clouds

H) Scientists’ Comments on the Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran (with RealPlayer Video)

Answer 3

I've always thought it was to keep members in the flock. Or it could also be a way to feel set apart and special. I grew up in a religion that claimed to be the only true one and it used to bug me to no end. Maybe it is the result of people searching for the ultimate truth and feeling like they've succeeded. I believe myself that ultimate truth must be wide enough to encompass humanity, or possibly all of life and can't be constrained to any one time period, culture, race, country, creed, etc.
As far as that clip, well he argues that religious pluralists are using a fallacious arguement by calling those who believe in one true religion arrogant, but he concludes that the pluralists are arrogant. So he is using an arguement he began by saying was flawed logic. Also, he is mixing believing in Christianity with believing in One True Religion. They are very different. Not believing in One True Religion does not negate belief in Christianity. One can do all that he cited as leading him to his belief in Christianity and arrive at a belief in Judaism, Islam, Bhuddism, Wicca, Druidism etc. Not all of these religions are the "one true religion". One True Religion negates all of the others.

Answer 4

I am having trouble with the link, but in my view(it's not "official") it's human nature to believe our "tribe" be it a nation, ethnic group, and or religion is the "right" one and everyone else is either crazy, blind, or going to hell. The problem with this outlook is there are now 6 billion+ of us and the weight of this argument threatens to tear us apart as a species. I've talked to many people from all sorts of religions/philosophies, and have come away disappointed as many times. I have no set answers or pat high sounding solutions, only an observation.......if we don't somehow learn tolerance and develop the ability to at least listen to differing points of view, we are in for the shitstorm of all time. I don't like to hear disagreement with my cherished views, but for myself I'm trying to cultivate the ability to realize that we all have the right to our beliefs so long as we don't take away the rights to belief of others, in other words to be tolerant.

Answer 5

Why think? We are human. That is what we do. In hopes of finding answers we search and find what we can. Sometimes we ask the right questions and get the wrong answers, and visa versa. However, we want to be right. That is the same about belief systems (religions). Everybody has one. Yours is not like mine. No one belief system is identical to another, nor can they be identical. So, the "correct" one is the one you have. If it is not the "correct" one, then, all you need to do is to change.

Answer 6

All religions may be true and all may be untrue also. if soemone come back experiencing the so called Hell or Heaven and expalins it in detail, there is nothing.
No one had a round trip yet. so we wait? Believers too waiting

Answer 7

Any religion that holds itself higher then others, or any person of a religion, does so because it validates their feelings and beliefs.

It is one thing to say: "I like apple pie." You feel good about saying it

It is a stronger thing to say: "I like apple pie" and eat it now and then. You feel really good about saying it.

It is an even stronger thing to get into a group of people who say, "I like apple pie" and then eat it every day with others eating it every day too.

Now they group feels that, since there are more of them at any one time eating and saying they like apple pie, then that must mean other pie eaters are a minority.

Since other pie eaters are a minority, that must mean that the truth is that Apple pie is the greatest pie ever! After all, we humans gravitate toward the truth right?

Simple sociology weather it is Nike, apple pie, chocolate chip cookies, or religion.

Answer 8

The correct religion has no ego to tell them that they are correct.