Are other religions treated differently by any major branch of Christianity?
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Christianity has a special and unique relationship with one other religion - Judaism.
The history of these two religions is that thousands of years ago God had a chosen people - the Jews. He made a special covenant with them and promised them a saviour - Messiah. Then (according to the Christian view) God sent this Messiah - Jesus. Some Jews accepted him and some did not. Those that accepted him became called Christians and began to accept non-Jews into their ranks. Those that did not continued to call themselves Jews and began a whole new strand of religion - Rabbinic Judaism.
Opinions within Christianity differed and continue to differ about the status of Jews. Some believe that by rejecting the promised Messiah the Jews have forfeited the promised made by God for their salvation. Some hold that God's promises of salvation made to the Jews still apply to them. Some passages from the new testament would tend to indicate this. In any case it is certain that Judaism has a unique relationship with Christianity because of their shared history and scripture and because of many shared articles of faith.
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General orthodox Christianity believes that there is an exclusivity with Christians. This is because their interpretation of:
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
However because of:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
They are to have compassion for all people regardless of their belief system. While other religions are generally considered "Pagan" or worshiping a "false" god(s). This sometimes gets confusing when some Christians claim that another religion's main god is really Satan in disguise - which is mentioned as an enemy of God in the bible.
Judaism has a different type of the relationship with Christianity. However its definition is not universally agreed upon. So, is the relationship special, "yes". Can I define it? "No, unless you want to read a book."
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Christians view Judaism differently than we view any other religion. Christians believe Judaism to be true except on the key point of the identify of the Messiah.
Besides that, Christians believe that all other religions are false to the extent that they disagree with things that Christians believe are true. And every other religion disagrees with Christianity on vital points.
(I presume most every other religion will likewise say that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Who would not say that? I mean, who would say, for example, "I believe the world is round, that person over there believes the world is flat, well, we're probably both right." That's the definition of "controversial subject".)
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