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Can adopting views that question the genuineness of religious disagreements help resolve the skepticism arising from religious disagreement and render us independent of examining the epistemic foundations of this challenge? In response to this question, the present paper examines three views that deny the genuineness of religious disagreements by offering unconventional interpretations of the nature of religious beliefs: (1) Religious non-cognitivism, which considers disagreements in religious beliefs to be of the type of differences in attitudes; (2) Religious relativism, which denies absolute truth in the realm of religion; (3) Religious pluralism, which holds that seemingly conflicting beliefs of religions can be simultaneously true. The paper examines these three views and their degree of success in overcoming the epistemological challenge of religious disagreement, arguing that although accepting them may reduce some epistemological challenges of religious disagreement, given the serious problems of these views, they cannot be considered a suitable solution to this challenge.