Answered by people who lived it
What about other religions? Isn't Christianity just one of many?
The people worth hearing on this are not those raised inside Christianity, but those who knew another religion from the inside — studied it, taught it, argued for it — and left. Maulvi Imad-ud-din translated the Quran and preached in the great mosques of India for years before concluding it could not give him what he sought; Brahmin scholars like Nehemiah Goreh and Krishna Mohan Banerjea did the same from within Hinduism. Their testimonies are not comparisons made from the outside, but verdicts from within.
A fourth-generation Muslim scholar who had translated the Quran into Urdu and preached for years in the Royal Jama Masjid at Agra, Imad-ud-din did not reject Islam from ignorance of it:
“I found nothing in Mohammedanism from which an unprejudiced man might in his heart derive true hope and real comfort, though I searched for it earnestly in the Koran, the Traditions, and also in Sufiism. Rites, ceremonies, and theories I found in abundance, but not the slightest spiritual benefit does a man get by acting on them.”
Nehemiah Goreh — born Nilakantha Goreh, a celebrated Sanskrit pandit of Benares who had written in defense of Hinduism — put the case to the Hindu reformers of the Brahmo Samaj, having reasoned his way across the divide himself:
“Christianity alone, it seems, teaches men true religion. The experience of the whole world seems to show that without the help of Christianity man has no power to find it out by his reason.”
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T.S. Baker — testimonies in their own words, free sources linked.