re: Good news for some. Pat Robertson says homosexuals will soon "die out"....

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I think what he is saying is that one religion is "right" or they are all "wrong".

The different religions of the world have various truth claims that are contradictory to other truth claims made by other religions. Due to the law of noncontradiction, if there is a contradiction, one may be right or both may be wrong, but they both can't be right at the same time in the same sense. In other words, A cannot be A and not-A at the same time.

Therefore, to pick and choose "truth" from different religions is arbitrary and pretty much guaranteed to be "wrong" when added up in totality. Even if you did have nuggets of truth, how would you know and how could you judge it to be true while something else false?

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The god I believe in doesn't require a necessary score of truths in order to get in to heaven.

Oh, you get 3 points for believing X from Catholicism, 2 points for blieving Y from Buddhism, and 4 points for believing Z from Hinduism. Doesn't work like that.

Likewise, I don't believe religions are mutually exclusive in the sense that one religion has all the answers and is exactly right and then all the other religions are wrong, even if they share some of the principles of the 'correct' religion. To me, that is entirely too simplistic of a way to view it.

Coupled with what I said earlier about religions literally being created by men and then those same men then legitimizing those laws with the 'mouthpiece of god' nonsense, you'll understand why I respectfully disagree with you and the other poster's ideas abnout the exclusivity of one religion having it all figured it out.