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The commandment is no God's before the Lord. If there's no other God's exactly what would you call dieties which are not the Christian God?

As per Christianity and Judaiism, there is only One God, there is no other God or god, other "gods" do not exist.

By that definition, there are no other deities.

Hence, a Christian would refer to gods of other religions as God/gods. The Archbishop can refer to Krishna as a Hindu God. He should NOT refer to Krishna as a "demon" -- he could refer to Krishna as a false god (his own opinion -- it's insulting enough) but a "demon" is too insulting.

For us to live in a world with many, many religions, we should respect each other's religion -- or else we become like the Muslimes.

I'm not Hindu, but I can respect a Hindu's religion and his/her fervor as long as he respects my right. And Hindu's generally DO respect that right (since Hinduism is in essence a kind of meta-religion, with myriad religions included in it, tolerance is ingrained).

I can explain to a Hindu friend that I don't believe in his gods and goddesses but I believe in only ONE God. My Hindu friend would say that he believes that all paths lead to God and that he/she worships Christ as one of the manifestations of God.

I can tell him why I think that's not correct, but finally it comes down to his/her choice of bestowing that exclusivity. BEYOND that, many Hindus have and are more model Christians (excepting the first commandment) than most Christians. Example: Gandhi

"I can explain to a Hindu friend that I don't believe in his gods and goddesses but I believe in only ONE God. My Hindu friend would say that he believes that all paths lead to God and that he/she worships Christ as one of the manifestations of God."

Hindus also believe in only one God, just that we believe there are many paths to reach Him.