5.27.2012

All Religions Are Not Created the Same

"Why do we make the catastrophic error of thinking that all religions are right and that it does not matter whether the claims they make are objectively true?

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.

Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at it's core is exclusive...

...What the person means by saying, 'You must be open to everything' is really, 'You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too'.

Ravi Zacharias in Jesus Among Other Gods.
Every religion think it is Right, or at the very least, the Best.  Or it is not truly a religion, is it?  Why have a religion that says, "I think this is right, but go with that other one if you feel like it."  Even if there is no God, per se as a Being, in the religion or belief system, there is clearly the thought or pursuit of the Best or the Right or the Eternal of some kind.  The person open to all religions, is not open to Nazism or the KKK or even the part of Christianity that says things they don't like.

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