Guys, the logic is pretty simple:
Religion A makes a claim about the world and divinity.
Religion B makes a separate claim.
Therefore Religion A and Religion B have conflicting claims.
Therefore Religion A and Religion B can not BOTH be correct.
Therefore if one adheres to Religion A, they must believe Religion B is a false religion and vice-versa.
Anyone who claims to be a Christian and doesn't believe all non-Christian religions are false must have some serious logical reasoning problems.
What a sad, blinkered view of religion you have.
You think simple logical syllogisms are sad and blinkered? Good grief.
I think that reducing religion to a competing, zero sum set of logical claims is sad and blinkered, yes.
Truth claims are an integral part of what religion is. It attempts to answer big questions like the nature of the divine, what happens after death, how should we live etc. Moreover, the religions themselves make key, mutually exclusive truth claims.
Jesus Christ among other things said "Before Abraham was, I AM" and "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." What does Islam have to say about this? Islam says there is only one God, Allah. What does Hinduism or Mormonism have to say about that?
Many religions have made important, mutually exclusive truth claims, have stated their importance, and have built entire ways of life around them. To come along and say that the view of religion they've built up is 'sad and blinkered' is not only patronizing to those religions and their adherents,
it's also making yet another mutually exclusive truth claim about religious faith and the divine.
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