(December 29, 2022 at 1:24 am)Hi600 Wrote: I'd have to say that Islam is the worst. Worshipping a prophet that is supposed to have married a 9 year old (who he started raping at 6 IIRC) is the absolute lowest of the low. No other religion is that bad.
I have to rank Judaism as worse than Christianity, if only because Judaism gave birth to Christianity as Islam.
I find Buddhism and Hinduism to be somewhat less bad than all three of the Abrahamic religions.
The reality of the matter is that Abraham, Jesus, Muhammad, and the Buddha are all fictional characters who didn't exist at all, but the fictional stories about the Buddha are less bad than the fictional stories about Jesus, which are less bad than the fictional stories about Abraham, which are less bad than the fictional stories about Muhammad.
All the major world religions have good and bad in them.
There are some that the world would certainly be better off without. These include the Unification Church, as practiced in Japan. Also Soka Gakkai, which, although it's an offshoot of a respectable branch of Buddhism, has turned into a money-grabbing outfit that preys on vulnerable people.
There are terrible Christian organizations which serve only to enrich their leaders. There are extremist Muslim and Jewish groups, which the world would be better off without. But overall these major religions, in history, have done enough good for people so that we don't need to damn the whole thing, blanket-wise -- they are diverse. The Unification Church and Soka Gakkai, on the other hand, don't have enough redeeming qualities in their histories to make them even a little bit respectable.
