Christianity is exclusive only if you reject your Creator, the God of the Bible. God's Word says He is not willing that any should perish (but some will, because they reject Him).
Jesus told us that "God so loved the world that He gave His One and Only Son, that whoever believes (trusts, relies upon) Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
Other religions are exclusive, too, if you don't believe as they do.
To say that there are older, more informed religions than Christianity is to not understand that Christianity had its roots before the beginning of time. God's Word, the Bible starts out, "In the beginning..." There were no religions before that! Jesus existed before the Creation of the world. In John 1:1, He is called the Word: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The Old Testament Is The New Testament Concealed; The New Testament Is The Old Testament Revealed.
Everything that humans knew about God was revealed to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. After the flood wiped out humanity except for one family, it was Noah and his family who taught others about God. People had their roots in God's truth, but they kept distorting the straight, pure Word from God, and so He created a new nation fathered by Abraham to preserve God's truths and to birth the Savior of the world, Jesus.
Jesus has had more influence in the world than any other. The founders of other religions are all dead, but Jesus lives today and seeks to love us into His Kingdom.
New Age says we are gods, which goes against everything the perfect, objective, universal standard of God's Word says.
As for reincarnation, I can't think of anything more stressful. Can you imagine waking up as a beetle or slug? And God's perfect standard says it's false: "Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment." Hebrews 9:27
I'm staking my life on God's perfect Word and His Son Jesus, who saved me from Hell (originally made for fallen angels, and expanded to include all rebels against God) and, instead, gave me a new, joyful life! My dying request is that you would, too. I WANT TO SPEND ETERNITY WITH YOU!
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