Are all religions equal?

In God Is Not One, Thabiti Anyabwile quotes from a recent book to demonstrate that all religions are not equal —

Which of the following–baseball, basketball, tennis, or golf–is best at scoring runs?  The answer of course is baseball, because runs is a term foreign to basketball, tennis, and golf alike.  Different sports have different goals: basketball players shoot baskets; tennis players win points; golfers sink puts.  So if you ask which sport is best at scoring runs, you have privileged baseball from the start.  To criticize a basketball team for failing to score runs is not to besmirch them.  It is simply to misunderstand the game of basketball.  So here is another problem with the pretend pluralism of the perennial philosophy sort: just as hitting home runs is the monopoly of one sport, salvation is the monopoly of one religion.  If you see sin as the human predicament and salvation as the solution, then it makes sense to come to Christ.  But that will not settle as much as you might think, because the real question is not which religion is best at carrying us into the end zone of salvation but which of the many religious goals on offer we should be seeking.  Should we be trudging toward the end zone of salvation, or trying to reach the finish line of social harmony?  Should our goal be reincarnation?  Or escape from the vicious cycle of life, death, and rebirth?

As Anyabwile notes, “The sports analogy is helpful because it reminds us that not every religious system has the same end in mind.  They work to accomplish different things in the world and in the lives of the adherents.”  In other words, not all religions are equal because not all religions have the same goal — to reconcile men to God — and only faith in Christ is equal to the task of producing that reconciliation.

The entire post by Anyabwile is worth reading.