Why Belief?

I am posting this just to get the discussion moving a bit.
I've read a lot of posts where people describe their belief and how they've had such a moving experience. I understand that people have had a strong experience with christianity and Jesus, but that doesn't mean you can logically feel that it is right or true. Many people of other religions have had equally powerful experiences and connections with their holy books, priests, or Gods... if you believe the bible literally or if you truely believe that Jesus was the son of God, then you are in direct contradiction with other religions who have an equal claim on "truth" as you do. Given that, how do you go on believing what you do? Faith? How can one version of faith be better than another??

This depends on what you hope to get out of your study?
In martial arts you may want to learn how to fight, or defend yourself.. you will probably learn this well given a number of different schools... you may want to learn inner-peace or dicipline, and a number of schools will give this to you as well.If you want inner-peace and tranquility, and your particular religion gives that to you, all is well, and I hope you can continue bringing that peace to others.
But to adopt a religion as actually giving you information about how the universe was created, who is responsible for it, and/or whether man has been created as in doctrine or evolved from more primative life seems impossible. You can believe what you like, but you must also simultaneously accept that your version of the truth is completely subjective and holds nothing above other versions.