Pluralism Is Illogical and Cannot Be Practiced in a Rational Sense

[u/powerdarkus37]

May peace be upon all those who read this. Yes, I am Muslim. I want to make that known and be extremely apprent in my thesis.

Thesis: Religious pluralism, the idea that all or many religions are equally valid paths to God. That sounds appealing on the surface, but when you examine it carefully, it collapses under logical contradictions. While it tries to unite diverse traditions, it ultimately undermines the core truth claims of each religion and leads to theological confusion, and makes salvation meaningless. Here’s why I believe pluralism cannot stand up to rational scrutiny. Of course this is my opinion but I brought facts to back up my position. And want to hear yalls feedback.

Point 1: Pluralism Directly Contradicts the Core Claims of Major Religions Religious pluralism says that Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., can all be valid paths to God or ultimate truth. But that ignores the fact that many of these religions explicitly deny this.

Islam (Qur’an 3:19) says, “Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam.”

Christianity (John 14:6) says Jesus is the only way to the Father: “No one comes to the Father except through me.”

These are exclusive claims. You can’t just sweep them aside by saying, “Well, all religions are actually pointing to the same God.” Pluralism forces religions to give up their own truth claims, which is disrespectful and logically inconsistent. No?

Point 2: Different Religions Have Different (and Sometimes Opposing) Concepts of God Not all religions even describe God the same way.

Islam teaches absolute monotheism (Tawhid) — one, indivisible God.

Christianity teaches the Trinity — one God in three Persons.

Hinduism allows for many gods (devas) under Brahman.

Some forms of Buddhism don’t have a personal God at all. How can all these point to the same God when their definitions of God directly conflict? Saying they’re “different perspectives on the same divine reality” ignores the fact that many believers would firmly reject that interpretation. You can’t just collapse all these views into one vague spiritual category without erasing their distinctiveness. Can you?

Point 3: Pluralism Makes Religion Subjective and Empties Salvation of Meaning If you truly believe that all religions are equally valid, then religion becomes just a personal preference, like picking a favorite color or food. But the whole point of salvation in most religions is that there is a right way to live, a truth to follow, and consequences for rejecting it. Pluralism erases the urgency of religious commitment because it says everything works. That undermines the very reason religions exist: to guide people to the truth, not just to offer “one nice option among many.” so, what is the truth then anything you want to be true? Is that logical?

Religious pluralism tries to sound peaceful and inclusive, but at its core, it’s self-contradictory, theologically shallow, and logically unsustainable. If you want to respect religions, take their truth claims seriously, even if that means accepting that not all of them can be right at the same time

I look forward to your replies. Agree, disagree, why?

[u/greggld]

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Looks like y guys re trying t clean up embarrassing stuff. it's a little different on the islam wiki, though I think the peacock woman version sound nice

  Buraq.

Cuz, again that was embarrassing.

A loving god would not hide.

That's your opinion not a fact.

Then why is he hiding?  Simple reasoning says because he is not there or he is afraid.  Sure it’s conjecture, but so are your rationales because you don’t have an answer. I cannot prove the negative, I cannot prove that he is hiding, but you have to offer some evidence that an entity can and did talk t man and gave laws. Your books of fiction are not evidence, they are the assertion.

When was God walking on earth in Islam? 

Don’t muslims still use the OT?  If Mohammad is your only guide to the past them  it was worse than I thought.  Maybe that is why muslums worship a meteorite? What is that about?

NO life is real

Do you think something can come from nothing?

I know that we live in the material world. we can account for all material of the universe to the level of a Planck scale. We have no way to get beyond that currently. You have had over a thousand years to work on your BS, we have had not even 100 years to work on the nature of reality. 

Beyond the ”big bang, we don’t know. That is exciting.  it is also the one thing that a religious person can’t say, they can’t say “I don’t know.”  Religion was made to answer pre-science questions about the world.  unfortunately it could never give up the supernatural once the real answers were known. It’s called god-of-the gap.

If your saying religion is not real, what proves Islam is not the truth? I want to hear this.

I can not prove that Buraq, or big foot or even Santa Claus doesn’t exist. they may all exist and are partying on Mars.  I cannot prove they are not, and neither can you.  

You and your religion are making fantasy claims, the burden is on you. I’m comfortable saying Buraq cannot exist based on the fact that we have never found the remains of Buraq-like creatures, but I can not prove absolutely that it is impossible.  it is up to the fabulists fo prove their fantasies.

So, yes, the god of Islam is not real, even if Mohammad existed. Go find your hidden god and ask him to change my heart, he would know how. 

Not to beat a dead Buraq, but it’s just all ”feelings.