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If all religions believe all other religions are in some way wrong?

Why should anybody believe in any one of them?

Update:

Renche - thanks for your support. I don't mind people being aggressive towards my question as I love stirring these people up. Maybe they'll later reflect on it and start to think about what it is they actually believe in, and admit that if they are wrong about some things in respect of their religion, maybe they're wrong about everything.

There is an Emo Phillips joke that inspired this question which is both very funny and makes the point far better than I do. But then I'm just a dumb Atheist who hasn't the intelligence to believe in a mythical sky spirit without some form of evidence.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I am religious. Of course, I do not believe that other religions are wrong. Not all religions teach such things. I do not believe in bashing other people's beliefs.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    They most certainly do not. Does a guy taking calculus think that the child taking arithmetic is wrong. No, definitely not. You are being fundamentalist, all right, all wrong.

    But even Christianity itself was first called The Way because there is no all right. There can't be. The message is of unbounded depth. Thus one person plumbs further than another in one area but the other is not thereby wrong. See, this is where hatred starts.

    As to conversion, which is what everyone who has any movement in religious understanding undergoes, this is an unexceptionable account of it. Note how John Henry Newman ( a 3-time convert himself) describes what you think to be true :

    "For instance, a gradual conversion ..., plainly, has much of the character of a continuous process, or a development, in the MIND itself, even when the two religions, which are the limits of its course, are antagonists. Now let it be observed, that such a change consists in addition and increase chiefly, not in destruction. "True religion is the summit and perfection of false religions; it combines in one whatever there is of good and true separately remaining in each. ...So that, in matter of fact, if a religious mind were educated in and sincerely attached to some form of heathenism or heresy, and then were brought under the light of truth, it would be drawn off from error into the truth, not by losing what it had, but by gaining what it had not...That same principle of faith which attaches it at first to the wrong doctrine would attach it to the truth; and that portion of its original doctrine, which was to be cast off as absolutely false, would not be directly rejected, but indirectly, in the reception of the truth which is its opposite. TRUE CONVERSION IS EVER OF A POSITIVE, NOT A NEGATIVE CHARACTER."

    And of course there is the Catholic Teaching about the depths of Faith.

  • 1 decade ago

    There is no God or God's or anything, there all made up. It's each persons choice to have "Faith" that what there being told is true. Each different religion will tell you there's is the only one and all the others are wrong, it's a never ending circle. Make up your own mind about it, either believe in a God, or like me, don't.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    That is a perfectly good question. The answer in all cases is arrogance. "Followers" of all religions consider "their" religious beliefs to be the only true faith and everyone else to be misguided fools. You have received some strange and aggressive answers from respondents of the lower intelligence group, don't let it annoy you.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Wow, that's true.

    But every member of every particular religion is brainwashed to believe that they are the only ones who know "the truth" and that the millions of people who don't hold the same beliefs are doomed to hell.

  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus IS The Way, The Truth, and The Life! (John 14:6.) Pure Religion: James 1:27. <')))><

  • 1 decade ago

    it comes down to this. 2+2=4 one right answer. any other answer would be wrong. if u said 3 5 8 9 or 10 they would all be wrong. so that tells me there is only one right answer and probably a lot of wrong answers. Jesus is the way the truth and the life.

  • Janian
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Exactly, you should believe all or none. That's the most logical thing to do.

    Since I can't be bothered practising all of them, I choose none.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Ahh - well spotted, the fundamental flaw in religion. Lucky it's a work of fiction isn't it !! :)

  • 1 decade ago

    I mean, if they are all wrong in some way anyway, right?

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