What is the best religion?

Question

What is the best religion?
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Answer

Axiomatically every religion considers themselves the best religion since they hold theyre the possess of truth while every other religion would be either be false or a waterdowned version of the truth. Unfortunately because of the nature of religion theres no way to resolve the debate outside of any particular religion since no religion holds the only truly universal invariant resolver, meaning reason, as a standard to judge the truth of the totality of its claims. brbrIf you mean best from a secular position than in essence youre asking us to judge religion against a set of standards that may be denied as legitimate by the religion. However if I was to judge religion from that perspective I would judge each religion on the degree that it allowed the free exercise of the use of reason. Accordingly I would judge Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism, as practiced in the western world, as being the best religions since they allow for the greatest use of reason by its individual believers. Buddhism by its internal nature seems the most organically genuinely tolerant however, this may be my experience within the western world and may not reflect the nature of Buddhism in nations that it has political power. Historically, I would need to say Christianity was the best religion because by accident it allowed for the survival of Greek philosophical notions within it that later bloomed during the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial revolution.