Crusty, I'm smarter than the average bear, but Christianity and Islam are religions of hatred and bigotry.
Only hateful religions would threaten nonbelievers with everlasting torment. No human being, except perhaps Jesus and Mohammed, has ever been so cruel.
Both of these religions disparage those who do not accept them. The blessings of love only apply to their own. They threaten them with Hell. This is hatred and bigotry defined.
The 'love' that Jesus and Mohammed pursued was directed to those who agreed with them. And none other. Scorn, ****ation, and hellfire await those who do not accept their "love". What sort of monsters were they? What sort of horrible demons were the prophets of the Old Testament who practiced genocide, murder, slavery, rape, child-murder, filocide, mysogeny, and torture in the name of a loving, generous god?
They are, at best, the vicious recountings of the barbaric values of primitive tribesmen. It is to the discredit of modern humanity that such traditions exist in any fashion other than myths in dusty anthropology textbooks.
DF