Fred, Fred, Freddymac, FredFredFred... you said: Sounds almost like a baited question but what the heck, I'll bite. The reason that the others are distinct from Christianity is because there is only one God and his son is Jesus so that means Christians are right and all the others are just full of crap. Excuse me for being blunt but I prefer to keep it short and simple when I can.
Thanks for buttressing my point, but it really wasn't necessary. The whole point is that there are competing views of religion, each of which has both reasons (after a fashion) and faith that it is the correct one to the exclusion of all the others.
There is no compelling reason why Christianity is the One True Belief, in a world of dozens of major and thousands of minor beliefs. They're all equally (in)valid!
Saying that your religion is the only valid one, and that all others are bogus, is simply juvenile and simple-mindedly parochial. My dog's better than your dog (because he's my dog). Get it?
There is as much reason to believe in Thor as Jesus, except for fashion.
DF
My dog's not better than your dog because he's my dog, my dog's better because he's freakin awesome!! Joking aside, my dog is pretty good but you may very well have a better one.
For the God part, my God is not better because he's my God, he's better because he's the ONLY God and he's freakin awesome!!!