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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

It's typical for them to assume that theirs is the only religion that matters yet they have never really researched any others.

It's like saying this brand of coffee is the absolute best and I know this even though I have never even tried any other brands.

Wow. Way to generalize.

You speak to a narrow minded few and decide we're ALL like that?

I love to learn. I have learned about many different faiths. They only way to properly communicate IS to learn. Find your commonalities. Find your differences. Learn what issues are sensitive and might cause a fight so you can avoid them until dialog is established. Later discussion will not cause problems.

I studied Judaism,, Christianity, Catholicism, Baptist, Lutheranism, and Protestant before I made my decision. Study what you can, that way you can make an educated choice.

Maybe because Christianity is the largest religion

=\ Who knows. I think it is more of a pride thing some of these Christians have. I fully respect the devout, not-in-your-face Christians. But there are many that don't practice what they preach.