I have always liked geography a lot. In my childhood I used to open an atlas quite often. You know the pages at the beginnig where you have the earth spread out flat. There''s a page showing the world"s population density by areas, another the vegetation, another the climate. ......and another the religions. Catholic areas are coloured red, Protestant ones pink, Islamic green, moving further east Hinduism is denoted by yellow, then Buddhism, Shintoism in other colours ,and so on . The country I come from is a Catholic country - parents, relatives, teachers,peers all said ours is the true religion; others, poor guys,were not so lucky. They must be converted.(When I later learned just HOW they were converted.... and what "God" is this who arbitrarily decides who is born where, to their fortune or misfortune?). I said to myself, well, had I been born in, say, an Islamic country, NO DOUBT those around me would have said exactly the same thing: ours is THE true religion. And the psychological factor is very convincing, though not, at least in my case, overpowering: all these thousands of people , hundreds of thousands of people all around, can"t all be wrong.So therefore they must be right.
It is all a question of where you happen to be born. If now it is said that we ourselves choose the location and conditions of our lives when we are in the bodiless state just before taking birth,well, that at least eliminates a jealous and dictatorial "God" from the picture. He is out of the picture already as it is, since he does not exist. And he does not exist simply because SUCH a "God" cannot exist!
No religion is inferior or superior. More wars have been fought in the name or religion than in all other causes put together. Only Buddhism can be exempted from the charge - but then Buddhism is not a religion at all. Compare what adherents to the mono-theistic relgions say, "it must be true because the pope, or the bible or the koran says so", to the Buddhist"s "nothing that goes against common sense can be a teaching of the buddha"
2006-12-26 01:24:02
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answered by shades of Bruno 5
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Not all religion can be claimed as the truest. It is rather simple to find out, since God had descended the final Quran. (The word final means there will be no more after this) there must be reason for the God to do so, and have anybody ever wondered
why the God is not going to descend any commandments anymore? The truth will always remain as the truth, don't you think it is rather good for you to find out the truth yourself?
2006-12-26 00:27:25
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answered by S.K. Chan46 3
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I do not claim anything about my own religion, nor do i find inferiority in other beliefs. I believe in the common-ness of all virtues and all religions, the basic tenets of love, kindness and spirituality. I believe our beauty lies in our variety. When i do not hold any such opinions about different races, cultures, ethnicity, customs, traditions.. or for that matter, the variety in seasons, temperature, flora and fauna etc. around the world, i certainly do not hold any contradictory opinion towards a thing called religion.
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one -- Elbert Hubbard
2006-12-26 00:14:42
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answered by arctic_quasar 1
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I will take the precedent remarks :
Up to a point, Judaism was the true religion,
[Same for christianity]
but then they did not accept Jesus as their Messiah, and thus they turned against God.
[but christians do not accept Muhamed the same way , the jews think they're superior to the christians they don't accept Jesus, and the christians think they're superior to the muslims they don't accept Mohamed although Jesus anunce them the prophecy of Mohamed descendant of Ismael the brother of Isaac son of Abraham.
I recall that jews and arab are semits they are decendant of Abraham]
So, only Christianity is the true religion, all others are false religions.
[So islam is the only one religion because affirm all the prophets Jesus inluding and after Mohamed no others prophet comes like he's revealed, we can see that is the true, so many people follow Jesus, Mohamed, that's not for nothing..]
2006-12-26 00:26:37
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answered by nami 4
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I would not use the word "inferior"
I just believe that Christianity more closely follows the instructions of the Bible than many religions do.
2006-12-26 00:41:19
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answered by kenny p 7
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Jews do not claim to have the "true" religion. There is no special reward for Jews -- only special obligations to God (613 commandments). All the righteous (those who follow the Noahide laws) of the nations have a share in the world to come. No one converts to Judaism because of threats or dire consequences if they don't.
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2006-12-26 00:18:31
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answered by Hatikvah 7
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There's only one truth. 2 + 2 = 4. ALLL the other answers are wrong! Maybe 22 could be a lil understandable, but 5 is worse than 22.
My religion is the truth. It was revealed to us from the One Creator, who taught us about Himself, and our duties to Him, and to each other. and our purpose in this world.
2006-12-26 00:36:00
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answered by phoneme 2
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Absolutely not.
Different people have different levels of understanding, and different spiritual questions.
The religion I follow is right for me; but may be completely inappropriate for you or others.
So there are different religions are for different people, and virtually all of them come from the same source God.
The scriptures came through the consciousness of a man; and it is impossible for the mind of man to fully understand the mind of God; so it is impossible for anyone to record the literal word of God; that some religions answer some spiritual questions but not all.
2006-12-26 00:20:07
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answered by Rev. Two Bears 6
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Up to a point, Judaism was the true religion, but then they did not accept Jesus as their Messiah, and thus they turned against God.
So, only Christianity is the true religion, all others are false religions. That includes the Catholics, who teach false doctrine that goes against God's Word.
2006-12-26 00:15:21
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answered by Born Again Christian 5
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There is only one church Mat16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church... (singular).
Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism. Remember the greek word for church is 'ekklesia' which means called out ones. The church is not a building but a spiritual group of people. Every church believes they are correct but we must prove everything to ourselves by proving all things (1Thes 5:21) because satan has decieved the WHOLE WORLD (Rev 12:9).
2006-12-26 00:35:03
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answered by cejetski 1
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