Your Uncle was most likely going with much of what is spoken about in the Old Testament. In many instances "God" encouraged the Israelites to wipe out entire cities because the prominent religion in those cities were not the worship of "God" as outlined in Exodus and Deuteronomy. It left no out for any alternate forms of worship.
Today there are those who believe that any other form of worship of ANY higher being, even if people claim to worship the Jewish God, it is Pagan and at it's root a form of worship devised by Satan to draw people away from God. This is what I was taught in my Bible courses at a Northern Bapist college.
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My Karma just ran over your Dogma.
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