Re: Hypothesis: Monotheistic religions are the worst.
That's one reason I'm no longer affiliated with any church. There may be a Being out there, there may be an afterlife, but there sure as hell isn't a being who supports preposterous notions such as "We are *the* true religion, and the others are going to hell." I've heard protestants say it about Catholics, let along about Muslims - and both protestant and Catholic are supposedly Christian. (But then we have plenty of evidence for animosity there in Belfast.)
Who knows how empty the sky is
In the place of a fallen tower.
Who knows how quiet it is in the home
Where a son has not returned.
-- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)