Which religion is true?

In today’s modern world we have over 10 major religions with substantial followings, hundreds of minor religions, and literally thousands of denominations of each-- each one with a slightly different belief system to the last. Christianity alone has over 18 major branches, some with decidedly different ideals. And this is just today.

The history of the human race is filled with many different religious beliefs, each one taken extremely seriously by its adherents-- just as seriously as people take their religion today. Be it Roman, Greek, Egyptian, or Nubian, the people who followed these religions believed in them completely. Even with the multitude of different beliefs held in the past and today every religious follower believes theirs is the true religion. They will all agree that every religion cannot be true. They will all agree in fact that only one can be true. They will not agree, however, on which religion that is.

Most religious people will dismiss the religions of the past as simple ‘mythology’ as though this dismissal automatically claims them false. They look on people from the past as having ‘quaint legend based belief systems’ although many of them were formed alongside, or even after their own religions.

If an objective individual were to look at the thousands of different religions that have peppered the history of the human race and look at their origins and mythology, would he be able to choose a definitive religion from the masses, one that stands out above the rest—the true religion. I doubt it. Each religion can claim to have the ultimate prophet, the ultimate truth, but really they are very much all the same. Religion has changed so little in thousands of years that its study can reveal only one conclusion: It is in man’s nature to want a creator. The creator will always be in the image of the believer, and its adherents will adamantly believe that theirs is the only way to salvation.

Ring a bell?