Ranking the world's worst religions

[Thumpalumpacus]

I tend to rank religion by how much they hamper human progress in general.

Religions that may be vicious but also seem to be lacking in the ability to gain in scale don’t hamper human progress very much.

Religions that tend to hold sway only in areas that are backward and primitive is less dangerous to general state of human progress than religions which are likely to gain political power where institutions of human progress are concentrated and thus can apply their malevolent influence more directly upon engines of human progress.

So I have to say Christianity ranks far and away as the worst and most dangerous, even if it at the moment doesn’t seem to be quite as vicious as Islam.

The sad fact is that Islam can't really throttle progress in those areas where it holds sway precisely because it has already retarded progress in those areas decisively.

Also -- and this is not related to the above post I quoted from Anomalocaris -- I disagree with the notion that Buddhism is a benign religion. Look at what has happened in Myanmar the last few months, where the Buddhist majority has executed an ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya. There are other examples of severe religious violence involving Buddhists. Like many other religions, they may espouse benign precepts, but the difference between words and deeds exists.