Does every religion's claim to truth inevitably lead to conflict?

No. A claim to truth harms no one; strife arises only from reacting to it with violence. People may debate truth openly, as long as they behave humanely.

Almost every religion considers its teaching to be the complete truth. Whether these claims are justified cannot be settled in a sentence. That would require knowing every religion through its own scriptures and comparing them carefully. But the concern behind the question is a different one. Do such claims not inevitably lead to conflict?

A claim in itself hurts no one. Everyone may say what they believe to be true. Strife arises from the way people react to the claims of others. When followers of religions fight one another and shed blood in the name of God, it is religion itself that suffers most. God is the Creator of all people. It is impossible that He would command the believers of one religion to cut the throats of the believers of another.

So the blame lies not with the religions, but mostly with selfish religious leaders. They distort their own teaching and treat people as their territory. When someone moves to another community, they become agitated because they have lost a follower. Whether a person is lost to God hardly concerns them. Ordinary believers bear the least blame in this.

The scriptures of all religions teach peace, cooperation, sacrifice, the restraint of anger and the avoidance of causing others to suffer. These moral teachings are universally accepted as true. If a doctrine contradicts them, then it is the doctrine that is false, not the morality.

The verses above show the way. There is no compulsion in faith. One invites with wisdom and argues in the best manner. Differences are a reason to vie with one another in doing good. In this way claims to truth can be compared openly without peace being broken.