One hates to quibble with options listed in another person's poll. That would seem to be bad form because it isn't my poll. I know this, and yet I feel compelled to question the underlying assumptions of the poll.
Not at all! Quibble away. It's your right to do so.
I think it would be helpful to define what is meant by "the one true/correct religion." What would it mean for a religion to be true or correct? Would we mean that every proposition asserted by the religion is true (assuming we could even codify a list of said propositions)? Would we mean that the general thrust and message of the religion is true, even if not every little particular claim were entirely accurate? Would we mean that the religion has great utility in that it fosters an overall increase in goodness and fraternity in the world? I could go on... So, could you specify what might be meant by a true/correct religion?
Would it really be helpful? I have a feeling that the Christians on this forum have a pretty good idea of what they mean when they say that Christianity is the one true religion. They mean that it is the only religion created by God, the only one with God's approval, the only one that has origins in divinity, and the one that gives one the best guidance in pleasing and serving God.
I'd also like to note that there was an equally viable option that was not listed--one could say that she believes that Christianity is the best of the religions while simultaneously believing all other major world religions possess substantial truths and increase the human family's overall goodness and charity.
An equally viable option? You're lucky to be living in the twenty-first century. In point of fact, what you are discussing is pure heresy.
Put more succinctly, even if you were to somehow establish that all the truth-claims of Christianity were accurate, you would not thereby establish that the truth-claims of other religions were inaccurate. The latter does not follow from the former. Not all truth-claims of the particular religions are mutually exclusive. In fact, many of them are not.
Well, exactly. This is precisely the point I made in the thread about religion being a cosmic shell game. It would indeed be an impossible task to assess all of the truth claims of every religion.
Logically, all of these options are possible:
1. All religions contain much truth within them, though more or less equally.
2. All religions contain much truth within them, but one of them contains quite a bit more truth than the others.
3. The project of religions is not so much concerned with truth as it is with goodness, so asking which one is true/correct is a category mistake. Religions are primarily concerned with increasing goodness, charity and mindfulness in the world, and are only secondarily concerned with ensuring that the practitioners know the truth.
I can see that these issues are important to you personally, but you are very much mistaken if you think that numbers 1 and 3 are agreed on by the vast proportion of any religion, or by the religions themselves, via their various holy books.
Put simply, most religions (most definitely including yours, Catholicism) go for option 2, and say that it is their religion that contains (to give an extreme understatement) "quite a bit more religion than the others."
I hope you'll forgive me if this seems like quibbling. But, I think these concerns are important.
Forgiven, of course! But yes, it does seem to me that you are quibbling about unimportant things. And if you think that Christianity says that all other religions are equally valid, then you seem to know very little of the history or current state of your own religion. May I suggest you do a little research?