Why do jews,christians and muslims look down upon other religions calling them pagans?

Question

If it is because that other religions are all polytheists then they are badly mistaken! Zoroastrians and sikhs also worship only one God and don't worship idols.Well ofcourse they don't believe in bible/quran prophets.

Answer 1

Semitic religions are exclusive, they (including I) believing that God is one and His message is also one. So, obviously any other message is either corrupted version og God's message or deception of devil

Answer 2

First of all, I am not a christian/catholic, jew or muslim.

These are the three branches of the same tree, called monotheism.

Maybe google Abraham? He was the pagan who decided that there was actually one god, and only one god. Judaism, then Catholicism, and Islam all came from this.

I think the cover of this month's Time magazine talks about why the bible should be taught in school (as an elective, of course) and your question is one reason why. If you knew anything about the bible, you would know this. Yes, I know, you aren't a jew, christian, or muslim, but in order to live in this society (presuming you live in the 'west') a basic knowledge of the bible is really helpful whether you believe it or not. Please read the Time article.

So by 'pagan' I think they must mean polytheistic, as we ALL were until recently (relatively speaking)

Answer 3

Pagan isn't a dirty word. It simply means "people out in the country" or, by extension, "people who follow the older ways."

As to why they look down their noses, it comes down to monotheism vs. polytheism. They believe monotheism is a higher development. It is, generally speaking, a more recent one. The more abstract, perhaps even the more intellectual in certain respects. But it raises problems, too. Polytheists can separate out the contradictory or incompatible parts of the deity into separate deities. Both gods and goddesses is an obvious example. It's pretty hard for a monotheist, who generally sees the divine as masculine, to recognize the Divine Female. And a goddess-worshiper who is monotheistic is going to have to go some to explain how The Goddess ever got pregnant and became the mother of us all.

Answer 4

We don't! I'm a Jew! I think that religions treat each other unfairly because they don't understand each other, and definitely religions with more power put down other religions and try to convert them because they believe that everyone should be that religion. For example, have you ever had someone knock on your door and try to persuade you to join their religion?
Loads of people are racist in a religion kind of way, like they are in a color kind of way. Stereotypes are also terrible. Now a days people think that anyone wearing a hijab is a terrorist, all jews are jesus-killers, all christians are anti-science, and all other religions are weird. None of these are true, and there are thousands more. Personally, I think that there's always gonna be someone against something.

Answer 5

Paganism is all that is not Jewish Christian or Muslim. Going way back it meant outsider, or country hick, or later witch . So A pagan is about anything. And as far as looking down on. The two do not always go together

Answer 6

in the name of Allah the most gracious the most mercifull
As far as islam is concerned we do not look down on other
religions as we are asked to live in harmony with people
practising different faiths.We as muslims have good knowledge of religion and we know that the concept of God
almighty is the same according to the hindu holy scriptures
and Islam.Both the scriptures of Islam and Hinduism are very
clear in saying that there is only one God and both religions
have Forbidden Idol worship.Muslim object to Hindus who
practuse against their own scriptures and therfore we do not
agree with Hindus who gives shapes and sizes to God almighty as they please and worship these Idols believing that
they are gods but we do not look down upon you and we only
would like to bring to you the truth.
As far as christians are concerned they cannot afford to look
down on hindus and call you pagans because they are sailing
in the same boat.They believe as you that god took the form
of man and go futher to say that God died on the cross ,They
believe in three gods and are the biggest idol worshipers
after the hindus the only difference is their Idols are more
realistic.

Answer 7

Perhaps it is because they believe their God is the only true one..we should learn tolerance..because if we were brought up in other countries, we would have been brought up in that culture and religion first and be passionate about it and convinced it is the true religion and all others are pagan.

Answer 8

The implication of the word pagan is 'hick'. They look down on all of the hick religions, most specifically the polytheistic religions. (The word 'pagan' implies rural, rather than urban.)

Answer 9

The Jews, Christians & Muslims have their religions. The Sikhs have no religion and are a part of Hinduism.

Hinduism is not a religion. It is a culture, custom, tradition, way of Hindus' lives in Hindustan (India). It is claimed and insisted as such by all the well known Hindu priests, scholars, intellectuals, books, scripts, the Ruling Party BJP & Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, the Indian & International strongest Hindu organisations RSS & VHP, each and every Hindu, etc.

Hinduism consists of four varnas (categories) and thousands of castes therein with different Gods & Goddesses for each such caste. Hindus castes are not equal. Hindus' worship and prayer is the job of their caste, they are born in by nature. Those not included in any of the said four varnas (categories) are untouchables ie worst and dirtiest than dirtiest animals.

All the post 1947 Indian laws made each and every citizen a Hindus except Jews, Christians, Muslims & Parsis; whether they know, consent or agree or not. Hinduism itself is not a religion. It is a custom, culture, tradition and way of Hindus' lives in Hindustan (India). A Hindu may embrace and convert to any religion and remain Hindu by nativity. Hindus have no DOs and DONTs; they are liberal & broad minded. There are no requisites or conditions to remain a Hindu. A Hindu born to Hindu parents in Hindustan (India) will always be a Hindu even if he denies & rejects Hinduism; believes & prays (or not) to a different God every time, etc. The only way to renounce Hinduism is to embraces a religion & to convert as a Jew, Christian, Muslim or Parsi, as per all the Indian laws.

Extracted below is the Constitution of India and Hindu Code (4 separate Acts) legislated by Indian Parliament and enacted by the Central Government which declared each and everybody a Hindu except the Jews, Christians, Muslims and Parsis.

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CONSTITUTION OF INDIA .... ARTICLE-25
Explanation II.—In sub-clause (b) of clause (2), the reference to Hindus shall be construed as including a reference to persons professing the SIKH, JAINA OR BUDDHIST religion, and the reference to Hindu religious institutions shall be construed accordingly.
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The Hindu Marriage Act 1955
The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act 1956
The Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act 1956
The Hindu Succession Act 1956

THESE ACTS APPLY:
1.to a person who is a Hindu by religion in any of its forms or developments including a VIRASHAIVA, a LINGAYAT or a follower of the BRAHMO, PRARTHANA OR ARYA SAMAJ;
2.to any person who is a BUDDHIST, JAINA or SIKH by religion; and
3.to any other person domiciled in the territories to which this Act extends who is not a MUSLIM, CHRISTIAN, PARSI or JEW by religion, unless it is proved that any such person would have been governed by the Hindu law or by any custom or usage as part of that law in respect of any other matters dealt with herein if this Act had not been passed.
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Answer 10

Because when you find out who they worship as God you find them stemmed in the roots of the fallen angels of the bible and those are demons and demon worship no matter what you call it is pagan! God wants us to worship him alone, and here is how;
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