Hi everyone,
mud like to ask the community what if consider a junk question.Many times in my life I’ve ridiculed and spoken against other religions like Islam,Hinduism,and Buddhism.I don’t agree with any of their beliefs and I point out the obvious flaws.I even came to the conclusion that hypothetically speaking if another Religion as right and their God was real would be very against it.
Note I’m not this way towards Jesus,I dare not speak against him.But I’m curious,is it wrong to speak against other religions and not agree with their fake Gods or let alone hate their Gods.But I don’t hate the people,I hate the false Gods they worship
Yes and no.
It can be wrong because in many contexts it is unwise and it doesn't represent the Christian faith well.
On the other hand, it is important to know what Christianity teaches, and why it is different from what another specific faith teaches, and of course to cling to Christianity.
Remember of course that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, and that no one comes to the Father except through him. Because of this, you don't want to invest your time berating other paths, but rather extolling the right path. It's less productive to curse the darkness than it is to light a candle. Christianity is truth, light, and life. Every opposing religion and philosophy is darkness and death. You want to shine the light, and lead people to it.
Some years ago, there was a pastor who made a big deal out of burning Korans, making the news with that and citing all kinds of terrible things about Islam. Those I cared to look into appeared to be true. The most serious one of course, is that it doesn't get people to Heaven. OK, fair - but hundreds of other religions that also don't get people to Heaven exist too, and he's spending his time picking on one of them. When there's hundreds of false paths that lead to death, why give special treatment to one of them, and make yourself look like a jerk while you're at it?
Another problem with spending time on trashing other religions is that you will not know those other religions well enough to trash them accurately 100% of the time, and when you miss on one of those points, you look like a fool. I've made it a point to not pretend to be an expert on outside faiths, but to know mine well. I can ask a lost person questions about what he or she believes, and I can be the expert on my beliefs. When there's a mutually respectful conversation like that, it creates space for the Holy Spirit to do his work. Plus, it's obedience to Christian virtues of love and humility, and putting them on display.
This doesn't mean that I know nothing about other faiths, or that I don't intensely dislike some of their teachings. I have had some education on them. I know enough to know that the claim of all religions being the same is as ignorant a claim as they come. I know why Christianity is different and incompatible with them. But I don't go out of my way to say this and that about them. I know for instance, why karma is not compatible with Christianity at all. But you're not going to see me writing a blog about how horrible Buddhism and Hinduism are. I don't need to do that, I need to be a herald of why Christianity is
right.
As for that knowledge? I keep that in the bank for when it becomes handy. It can inform my line of questioning when I am in or around a conversation that includes people of these faiths. It can help me better understand what people are trying to tell me, and even help me see through pitches. It can help me educate other believers who don't know very much about them - though care should be taken to not speak beyond one's knowledge of them.
