I'm not religious - I'm beyond the ideals of god and worship, but I was once Catholic, and besides the bible, I've read the Dhammapada, much of SRI ISOPANISHAD, Satanic Bible, very small parts of the Bhagavad Gita - As it Is, opening parts of the Koran, some parts of the Book of Mormon, and half of the Dao De Ching.
The Satanic Bible and the Dhammapada resonated the most within me. I believe in individualism and compassion, and these books really were the most interesting.
Ive read the bible but found too many contradictions. You have to read other religions or how else would u be convinced that your religion is the best?
I've found the Bible to be remarkable and have read it many times in various contexts. I've studied it, cross-reference it, and researched it extensively, reading from many noted Bible commentaries written over many centuries. I've read the writings of the early church fathers. This has been the main source of my belief system.
I have taken courses on comparative religions, I've read enough of the book of Mormon to realize it is historically inaccurate and adds nothing to the word of God as already written in the Bible. I've read enough about Hinduism and talked to enough Hindu friends to realize the futility of a belief system that teaches we must constantly improve and go through multiple lives to ever hope to achieve perfection. Paganism, with its worship of the creation, not the creator, and any system that worships many gods seems like intellectual suicide to me. I respect Muslims for their faith in God, but I think their nationalism has overtaken their religion and can't follow a faith that promotes such violent means of conversion and rejects God's plan to redeem the world though Christ. It's ridiculous that they accept Christ as a great teacher and prophet but reject his main teaching. Only Christianity provides salvation as a free gift from a holy God who wants nothing more than to have a personal relationship with His creation. I'll take that any day over anything else I've seen or read about.
Sorry if I've offended anyone, but that's what I feel. I don't judge or persecute anyone with other religious beliefs, but I honestly feel you are wrong. We should all ask ourselves if we really believe that what we believe is really real. If you do, it should change your life. My belief has changed my life and I feel I've found Truth in my life.