Do you think your religion is right and everyone else's is wrong?

Answer 1

Of course I do, however, I still maintain respect for others and their beliefs.

Answer 2

I do tend to think that my religion is right and others are wrong. Although for me being a Classical Pagan I'm in minority among others who share my religion.

To me it's a matter of theological integrity, truth is universal. I'm happy to say that some other religions may contain some aspects of truth and am usually very interested in other religions but ultimately only one religion can be absolutely true.

Pluralism appears to be the order of the day in contemporary religion and Neopaganism has come onto the religious scene with this influence therefore most modern Pagans are Pluralistic with regards other religions.

However this was not neccessarily the case in antiquity. The charge against Socrates was introducing false Gods into Athens. Although the charge was upheld, Plato later demonstrated that it wasn't the case.

Clearly, though this won't be popular amongst modern Neopagan, Pagans in antiquity held exclusivistic ideas about their Gods & religion. So I'm in good company :-)

Answer 3

Everyone, has to believe their religion is the best for themself. But, they can not assume, that eveyone needs the same religion. Also, one must be careful, not to get too comfortable, with your religious beliefs. One can always get better at anything, since nothing in life is perfect, including religions. Thing work in life, that are not perfect. A religion can feed you good spiritual energy, without all of its beliefs as good as they should be. One should have an open mind, to all good spiritual ideas no matter the source.

Answer 4

It is not very meaningful to say which religion is right or wrong. The important thing is the subject of worship of that religion. The right and wise thing to do is to be in that religion that worships the only true and living God.

Answer 5

i think anything that is used as a tool to manipulate the masses and incite hatred towards other religions is wrong. really really cant see why people cant live and let live. believing in a religion doesnt make you a better person. i dont believe in any one religion, but i still have morals, and i still behave decently towards fellow human beings. religion has always been a way of controlling the masses.

Answer 6

Depends on the religion. Remember the Jim Jones cult and the cyanide Kool-Aid? THAT religion was wrong. I can go that far. I also think Creationists are wrong about the creationism/evolution issue, but not their basic Christian beliefs (except their "infallibility of the Bible" stuff). We share a belief, for example, that Jesus died for our sins.

It's more productive, I think, to look for common ground, and what we can learn from each other. I've learned a lot from my Muslim friends, for example, and I'm not in any position to label their religion as "wrong" -- just different in some respects.

Answer 7

This is hard to answer, I believe in my religion and respect other religions but I think that they are wrong. Sorry if that doesn't make sense.

Answer 8

i think my religion is right for me, but also other religions are right for other people.
i would not accept to think of a religion to be right if people who practice it try to force it onto the others as the only right religion

Answer 9

No, I don't think that.

I believe all religions hold truths within them that we all could learn from.

As for one religion being the only way to worship....no.

Answer 10

This is a difficult question to answer because it involves discussing some principles that the person you are witnessing to may or may not agree with. For example, does he or she agree with you that truth is knowable, that God would attempt to communicate with His people? or that only one religion may be right? Usually, I start by acknowledging the difficulty of coming to an easy answer. However, I tell them that I do have an answer; I am sure it is the right one, because it is an answer based on evidence. What kind of evidence? Prophecy and its fulfillment, Jesus and His miracles, the resurrection of Christ, etc. Then I ask that person if he or she knows of these things happening in other religions.(1) The answer is invariably, "No." Then I point out that they have only happened in Christianity. If any religion were true, Christianity fits the bill.
Religion is whatever you feel is right.
How do you know what you feel is right? Haven't your feelings ever turned out to be wrong? Are you are saying that what you feel determines truth? If so, then you are putting yourself in the place of God, and looking to yourself for what you "feel" is right.
If religion is whatever you feel is right, then that could lead to chaos. What if some people had a religion where they felt stealing was acceptable? And what about lying and cheating? Would you trust someone who believed in a religion that felt it was all right to steal, lie, and cheat?
Hitler felt killing Jews was right. He was wrong. The Bible says that the heart is deceitful and untrustworthy (Jer. 17:9). If you could come to know truth by what you felt, then the Bible, which is the revelation of God, didn't need to be written. But it has been written, and it has revealed that only God is the Source of truth, not your feelings.
I've never known truth to contradict itself. What if someone felt that something was right, and another person felt it was wrong? Would they both be right? If your statement is true, then how could there be a contradiction like that, if feelings determined truth?

Answer 11

I believe in my religion but that is not meaning that every one is wrong.