Why is your religion the right one (I prefer to argue Christianity but anything goes here)

Sorry for my absence I was busy this week and didn't have time to post a proper retort and I don't do "half assed" replies. So lets get in on this. That's totally fine. Religion is by definition an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence. That being said, religions around the word follow what is told to them in what is displayed as a physical book, scroll, or individual talking to them. The "idea" of religion, there being a higher power than us watching over us, is ambiguous an covers things even "beyond" formal religion. In this sense, Aliens can be religion though having no dogma there is no religion for alien theories (at least not a recognized religion in a mass sense) This debate is about organized empirically situated "evidence" based religions of all kinds. Not the abstract "there is something higher than me" because then there is no just cause, to argue anything because there is always someone higher than you. I contend again, that this is a farce. Most people who are indoctrinated into a religion are only there because that is all they know. Most people do not convert from one religion to another, and even fewer convert from no faith to any faith what so ever. Upon closer examination, it's easily found that a vast majority of people are within a religion because that is what they have heard and understood a majority of their lives. With a seldom few becoming devoted in a time of woe, such as being incarcerated, nearly losing their life, or losing the life of their loved one. To reiterate part of my point again, it is also for these very same reasons that someone is just as likely to abandon their faith. God took your loved ones, God was the one who created you and you by societies definition belong behind bars, or God wasn't taking care of you, and you almost died because of it. These reasons again are just as likely to make someone LOSE faith in a god as they are to GAIN faith in a god. Many countries around the world including the United States are founded on religion. When you go to a church, synagogue, or other place of worship. Inevitably someone will be reading text from their religion as a means to help dictate the message of that religion. In cases where they do discuss something personal to the individual, usually a reading of the scripture is carried over because the "idea within" resonates with that of the individual. Similar plights, stories, and instances help stir an emotion and share a bond with the reader. Just like in every other novel ever written. As Con stated, many people do not receive the signs that they desire. This again has to do with the psychological effects of religion. If someone is doubting their religion to the point of calling out directly for a sign, the brain will be looking for a sign instead of creating one. The opposite is true for a devoted man who has hit "rock bottom." His devotion to faith creates his reality of this being watching over him. While it is themselves taking over scientifically, their reality perceives it as their faith showing them hope and chance. So are you saying that the psychological effects of religion can "cloud" what is obviously in front of the viewer. When someone ask directly, in reality, real time in person evidence to be shown and receives none. How should that be taken differently from someone who can take something totally ambiguous or abstract and "turn it into" a message. That is what happens when individuals read into something too much and try to find a deeper meaning in something that does not contain it. This is a sign of an actual serious psychological disorder, relevant to people seeing crowns on goldfish, Jesus in toast, or the apple of Adam and Eve in a bowl of broth. It is something that is not there, but the mind "creates" it. Instead. The truth isn't always easy to swallow, but that doesn't mean you don't tell the truth. Sometimes it can be very hard and very scary to understand the world around you, however that does not mean you should just accept something without any given evidence because "it makes you feel better" especially where your life choices are impacted directly by your beliefs. If what you say is true, then I invite you to find one religion that hasn't created zealots who have caused pain in other people. In every individuals right to say what he or she thinks that is fine, believing that there is a higher power than you is fine, but that's not religion. Religion is following a set guideline to life in the attempts to gain favor with that particular deity. In every religion there is conflict with other religions for "being wrong" and within each religion there is a kind of "moral code" and if not followed followers of that religion can be offended. NOT saying grace at a Christian table before eating can offend them. NOT giving a Jewish person food blessed by a priest can of offensive. HANDLING pork in Islamic religions can lead to being an outcast. I contend that if each religion can't coexist and hasn't coexisted with another for over the last 2000 years, then none of them can be right.