Kostya

I disagree. While religious pluralism appears to be the only fair and balanced way to appraoch religion on the surface, it's very nature leads its proponents into logical inconsistencies. Firstly, in order to have pure pluralism, such as that tecoyah is advocating, one would be forced to admit that all religions are correct, despite the fact that there are irreconcilable differences between say Christianity's 'no killing' policy and the beliefs of the Charles Manson. If you were to apply pure pluralism to religion, you would have to accept that the evil cult in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is in fact correct, but how can this be so if one believes that the Hindu belief of non-violence is also equally correct.

Moreover, pluralism, is in fact an exclusivist claim. By saying that all religions, or a select number of core religions are all correct, you are therefore making the claim that pluralism is the correct belief and exclusivism is the incorrect one.

Is it really legitimate to choose a religion, in the sense of a preference, because it feels comfortable to you? I don't think this really fits in with the fact that most religions require that their followers have some kind of self validating faith. By simply choosing to become a Muslim because it seemed like a comfortable and easy religion, I beleive you are really making a choice about lifestyle, not religion.

I'm rambling...