That would have been much more meaningful if you had actually understood what i said.
You originally said in your
first post:
Let's not forget that all religions are about peace and loving each other.
So believing in God brings out the best of us, no matter who we are.
By reminding everyone that religions are about peace and love and concluding things from that, you're assuming that there actually is agreement that religions are all about peace and love, which makes your statement look silly.
You're assuming that all people view religions positively, but that some are non-religious anyway. Then conclude from it that under any circumstances, being religious and believing in god would be something that brings out the best in people.
So aside from the fact that what you're saying is demonstrably false based on the existence of people who are religious and who believe in god and who are not peaceful and loving people, there's also terrible reasoning in making a baseless and an obviously untrue assumption about how religions are judged and seen by people.
Those who don't see think their religion is not peaceful, than they didn't have the correct understanding of it. It is not because it is ambiguous, it is because they don't want to understand.
I'm happy to hear what makes you think you have the authority, basis, and most importantly of all, nearly the sufficient knowledge to be stating what is the correct understanding of the different religions around the world, and further determining whether or not people really want to understand.
Then, i'm happy to hear your excuse for ignoring the fact that embracing religion and believing in god does not make people peaceful and loving all the time, regardless of the correctness or incorrectness of their understanding of those things, because contrary to your original claim, where you didn't provide any qualifications or distinctions, even if we assume they have an incorrect understanding, that doesn't address the fact that they would be religious and theist individuals, who have not had the best of themselves brought out by religion and god.
There are things that are obvious. Like "love you neighbor" or "nobody of you will believe until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself". These are major things from "Christianity" and "Islam".
There also some other obvious things from those religions and others, though, which are not quite so universally accepted as a positive thing, and you already know that. There are teachings like making a distinction between people who believe and people who don't believe, deeming one group to go paradise while the other to go to an infinite hell, teachings about how the believing group should approach and treat that unbelieving group, teachings proposing endless types of restrictions of various kinds that some believers should inflict on others, teachings about various punishments for various kinds of acts that should be carried out by people on each other, teachings granting different groups or classes of people a different set of rights and privileges, teachings about animal sacrifices, teachings about self-inflicted pain, teachings about self-imposed restrictions, etc.
Within all those and many other types of teachings, there are endless differing views between people regarding the efficiency, truthfulness, effects, and nature of those proposed things. Whether or not they're positive, and whether or not they're perceived as a reasonable thing to teach to others, or in fact a horrible set of teachings to approach life with.
If you want to look at people and judge a religion, judge it by those who try to adapt this to their life. Not every called "Christian" is a practicing "Christian" and not every called "muslim" is a practicing "muslim".
I might do that if i have an unhealthy inclination to being both simplistic and selective. I don't though, so i won't.
Rather i'll ideally try to look at both positive and negative examples, the culture surrounding their existence and the culture from which the teachings emerged, and the texts and teachings of the religion itself and how they come off to me .
