You hear it a thousand times and more growing up in the East [India] - "We all come through different routes and end up in the same place." But I say to you, God is not a place or an experience or a feeling . . .All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.
Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.
. . . What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too."
-- excerpts from "Jesus Among Other Gods" by Ravi Zacharias, pp. 6-7
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