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anyone else or even yourself, that your mystical perspectives are real (rather than hallucinations), and that your holy book speaks the truth. You can't, in other words, prove that the Koran is false while the Bible is true, nor can you in any way support an belief like the following: while you "really" met Jesus in a dream, your Hindu classmate didn't "really" meet Shiva in a dream.

You can't prove that your religion is more true than anyone else's, but you still think it's justified to believe based on such inconclusive evidence - that is, justified for you. All the other people, who believe in other religions under the same evidentiary circumstances you're under, are unjustified in their beliefs, according to the beliefs you hold.

Despite basing your beliefs in the same kind of evidence (or lack thereof), you think your religion is the best - that you are justified, but they are not; that while it's okay to believe in one case, it's not okay to believe in another case, despite the perfect evidentiary similarity.

If you don't think this, you can't be a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, or a Hindu.

If you think this, be you a Christian, a Muslim, a Jew, a Hindu, etcetera, there is no avoiding the fact that you are a hypocrite. Your religion has forced it on you, and the only way to escape hypocrisy is to escape belief in your religion itself.

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