“Looking for Faith? Here’s a Guide to Choosing a Religion.”

Haha. The author is Ross Douthat and he is a convert to Catholicism so we know what choice he made several decades ago. I read his book Bad Religion:How We Became a Nation of Heretics over 15 years ago. For some reason the NY Times publishes his columns a few times a month. This is an excerpt from a coming book of his. Takes maybe ten minutes to read. You should be able to access it through the link to the NY Times even without a subscription. If you can't access but want to read it let me know.

The starting place for this endeavor is the recognition that Dawkins is simply wrong about the requirement for believers to disbelieve in every other faith. The bookstore of all religions isn’t necessarily a library of total falsehoods with one lonely truth hidden somewhere on the shelves, and embracing one revelation doesn’t require believing that every other religion is made up.

A sincere believer in Hindu polytheism, for instance, doesn’t need to assume that the singular God of the monotheistic faiths is just a fiction: Jehovah might be one deity among many, whose powers were exaggerated by his adherents but whose deeds were entirely real. Or alternatively a Hindu might interpret his faith’s pantheon as localized expressions of a single ultimate divinity and regard the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as a way of personifying that divinity as well.