Each religion regards all the other religions as spurious.

The supernaturalists believe in miracles, and each sect claims that
the miracles related in its own inspired sacred book prove the truth
of that book and of the faith taught therein.

No religion accepts the truth of any other religion's miracles.
The Hindoo, the Buddhist, the Mohammedan, the Parsee, the Christian
each believes that his miracles are the only real miracles.

The Protestant denies the miracles of the Roman Catholic.

The rationalist denies all miracles alike. "Miracles never happen."

The Christian Bible is full of miracles. The Christian Religion is
founded on miracles.

No rationalist believes in miracles. Therefore no rationalist can
accept the Christian Religion.

If you discard "Creation" and accept evolution; if you discard
"revelation" and accept evolution; if you discard miracles and
accept natural law, there is nothing left of the Christian Religion
but the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

And when one sees that all religions and all ethics, even the oldest
known, have, like all language and all science and all philosophy
and all existing species of animals and plants, been slowly evolved
from lower and ruder forms; and when one learns that there have been
many Christs, and that the evidence of the life of Jesus is very