Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~How can you claim to know the one true nature of the universe?
~Pride comes from the belief that you specially have the truth.
~Exclusivity is disrespectful
~Religious belief is too culturally and historically conditioned to be objective truth.
~If you hadn’t been born in America, you wouldn’t have been a Christian.
~Exclusivity is dangerous, creating a slippery slope towards oppression and violence.
~Reasonable, intelligent, decent people believe in a tremendously wide variety of religions.
~People throughout history have been widely recognized as having an extra large dose of the divine spark, even though they were clearly not Christians. Would you deny that these people were really tuned into God?
~There are certainly some elements of truth in all religions.
~Exclusivity is just a power play. Nobody ever says, “I’m sure there’s only one way to God, but I have no idea what it is.” Claiming your religion is the only one is just self-serving propaganda.
~It’s not particularly loving to condemn people to hell for simply not having even the chance to respond to the Gospel.
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