My answer is no. Absolutely not. Religions are not equal.
This question is often implicit when we talk about religion, and we encounter a variety of responses, depending the situation. Proselytizing missionaries, by definition, answer this with a great big “NO.” Advocates for religious tolerance often affirm the equality of all religions. When they are their most polemical selves, dogmatic anti-religionists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens would say that all such superstitious systems are equally bad. On a personal note, when we left Mormonism for Quakerism, several of our friends implied equivalence when they suggested that we were merely swapping one system for another.
