I think it's possible to measure the superiority of a religion per context. But the measure would have nothing to do with assertions per se. The other day I was looking at the history of psychiatry from ancient times to the present, and as usual I was looking for patterns and constants, and alas, through the ages there seemed to be one constant; that there's an optimal human state of being that is about being in dynamic equilibrium with a dynamic ecosystem, and whose characteristics are happiness, productivity, intelligence, and peaceful coexistence.

Interestingly, the center of human existence has been the temple, save for now when psychiatry has moved more into an atheistic view point. The cave was the first temple it seems. The cave is the church, the mosque, the lodge . . .

So to know the superior religion, we need to ask which religion now, offers a metaphor that can take any individual closest to the optimal state of being. In my estimation, so far, there's no single metaphor that fits into the global world we're living in. The psychological role of a human being is finding such a metaphor whether consciously or unconsciously, and right now the hue and clamor we're experiencing around us is proof that this task is indeed pushing us to the edge. Old metaphors can no longer fit, hence we'll see more atheists, fundamentalists doing their best to convert others, agnostics throwing up their hands in despair and the like. It's amazing how similar psychological conditions precipitate different behavior in different people.

But psychologically speaking most of these responses are the same in value in that they are all regressions. Regression isn't necessarily bad, the question is how is it being used to offer healing and progression? Once again we lack leadership in such a conversation. Not even atheists can handle this. Till someone somewhere finds the metaphor and shares it, and makes it to work on the political economy, we're stuck.

We blame the white man for too many things. All those guys worshipping deities living in mountains or worshipping multiple deities all did so because of the white man? Even when they had had zero interaction with him?

yeah... both you guys were wrong to hijack the thread... but it's a free world. I just lamented that I didn't see the point of all this.

Did they bring their deity worshiping to Africa??. There lies your answer. We should have stuck to our individual community supreme beings. Ngai wa kirinyaga in the mountains or the nyasaye in the rocks etc not some corrupted way of worship imposed on us.

By the way why Jesus white? why chosen tribe of Israel? why is some of the bible stories 'hidden'

Think think

There are contradictions in your first and second arguments @Ngogs. In your first, religion is a fallacy. In the second, we shoul go back to African Traditional RELIGIONS....

So where do you stand?

if you have ever met God or visited heaven/paradise then you're worth listening. Otherwise God is Propaganda and brutal lies

Easy bro... i should buy you a drink next time i am in the land of the rising sun. There is a movie titled "God is not Dead". You can get it on torrents, not trying to sway your thoughts, just watch it.

Between atheism and islam, I would rather have Hamburglar an atheist. To devolve him to sub-human Islam would make the world less safe by adding one more potential terrorist. Ukweli isemwe.

One would be tempted to think that humanity is a given quality, automatically and perhaps mysteriously arising from the primeval soup. But that's hardly the case.

Humanity is intangible, and by itself, invisible. It's even incomplete. Many here seem to know about God - even the atheists, but so little seems to be known about being human.

With time I have come to realize that there's something like pop-education - a rough amalgam of half baked ideas and concepts wrought of mass production that's giving the masses a false sense of pride and security and confidence but is in fact a heap of trash. It's this miseducation that's fueling this forgetfulness and recklessness about what humanity entails.

There's a saying that 'mtoto akililia wembe. . .' That's the answer for the reckless and ignorant. It won't be long before wailing starts.