Why is Christianity the only religion we should research before deciding?

I'm sure I'm going to get a lot of Christians on here saying "Because it's the only one that's correct" or "The only one that matters" or so on. Go ahead and waste your time, because that's not what I'm asking. Here's the question:

Many times, I have been asked by Christians whether or not I've actually read the Bible, tried to go to Church and so on. As someone asked here just recently, did I decide against Christianity after honest research, or because of things that had nothing to do with it? And yet, no one asks if they researched Paganism, Hinduism, Voudoun, Shinto, Atheism, Buddhism, Satanism or whatever else before deciding not to follow those beliefs. It's as if Christianity is assumed to be the default religious choice, and if you want to go outside that, you must constantly verify to everyone that yes, you studied it and decided it wasn't right for you. Meanwhile these same people rarely educate themselves on anything else. Why is that?

2007-06-11T17:04:08Z

Wayne T - I didn't mean that people shouldn't research their religion before deciding. They absolutely should research a religion before they choose it. But people can't research every religion on the planet before *not* choosing it, so why must Christianity always have a place?

Rocky K - The only non-Christian religion you studied in your search was Judaism, which is still related to Christianity. Protestant, Catholic, etc are all forms of Christianity. Why nothing else?

solarius2007-06-11T16:53:43Z

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As a Christian, I feel it's definitely important to research religions and philosophies other than my own, and I've been doing it for years. How can you even begin to choose a religion if you don't know your options? Education is critical in decision-making, and that's true on a theological level, too. Since most of my friends and colleagues are of different religions than my own, or do not profess any religion at all, it makes sense to know something about what they believe, or why they choose not to believe. There's more than one religion in the world, after all. And if someone's into Christian apologetics in any way, then they simply must know and understand other religions, or they'll come off looking rather foolish.

didnotknow1232007-06-11T17:00:30Z

You'll find a lot of times when looking at other religions or denominations as people say, there's no backing their beliefs just made up things by men the bible says it's the word of God, other religions use idols, men or physical things like the sun and moon, there's a lot of people who believe in the bible and Jesus but they try to make him convenient like he's a jack in the box, or a puppet, they only bring him out when they think they need him, and then put him back in their little box.

kana1215692007-06-11T17:00:05Z

Most of the US is made up of Christians and those that weren't feeling like they belonged in that group never spoke up. They knew if they thought out of the box that their views would be questioned. If you grew up in a predominantly Muslim country then the same thing would happen. Christians think that their religion is all there is and refuse to be open minded like people like you and me. They have a difficult time believing that anyone would question Christianity or believe any different then they do.

?2016-09-05T17:14:35Z

Surely the identical argument might observe to some other creed, faith or notion beneath concerns of reciprocity. Why assess different religions like Christianity earlier than deciding upon.Hinduism...? ... if it is only a topic of getting religion?

Hogie2007-06-11T16:59:03Z

No one is stopping you from believing whatever you want.

All these other religions worship something of creation, and not the creator.

They are also based upon some sort of "nirvana" achieved through one's own efforts.

With Christianity, you have prophesies going back 1500 years before the birth of Jesus describing things of his life in minute detail; all of which came about. And on top of this, the ones who preserved these prophesies didn't believe them themselves. It's not like they had some ulterior motive.

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