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After childhood, there is no need for advice. I understand things. Unwanted advice is trying to imposing authority.
I don't concentrate on bad apples. I see the good and the bad parents and I'm asking if having an authoritarian religion makes you more likely to defend bad parenting. I see religion having been used to stop children from kicking their parents out just because they are parents, no matter how bad they are.
They might have belonged to religions which are averse to idea of individual thinking for themselves, and making it compulsory for them to go by what their leaders have said or their books; otherwise threatening ex-communication. Using ex-communication or worse, in some, even assassination and beheading also is OK.
My god is so powerless, he can't even keep his own people from committing atrocities.View attachment 40588View attachment 40589
When people create atrocities in the name of God, God has nothing to do with it.
Further if it is a Muslim God, the only true God has nothing to do with it.
It is true like wise to a Trinitarian God, Mormon God, the God written in the Bible has nothing to do with it.
Just a case of mistaken identity.
When the world falls into barbarism (as it occasionally does for decades on decades) then we ought to be able to rely upon Christianity to soften and limit that barbarism. Why didn't it succeed at this during the period of American Expansion? Its an apt complaint, but doesn't combine these three religions into a pack or differentiate them from other religions. All of the religions have failed your test. All societies have, too. All people have with few exceptions. Are you an exception? Are you not old testament, too? Have you surpassed it? Has anyone?
Were you not born in sin? Jesus had to die on cross because of you.
Hinduism never persecuted LGBTQ. They were always a fun part of life and religion. A famous one was a general in Pandava army in Mahabharata, Shikhandi. They have their own religious order now. There Chief is a qualified Engineer from a well-known University - Banaras Hindu University.
I'm referring to the ethical tests you've put forward for grouping religions into the Abrahamic category which is some sort of test that you don't apply to other religions equally. It why I've pointed out that its an arbitrary means of categorizing.
I keep pointing out there isn't one espoused by the abrahamic religions. You keep claiming there is. If so nobody seems to agree on what it is. Also where in the world are people more ethical and fair? I don't think that claim is supportable, either.
Its irrelevant to the conversation that you are an atheist. You're talking about three religions like they are all the same, teach the same things and are worse ethically than all other religions and societies without any religions. You also claim that they share the 'Old testament' in common, but they don't. You could toss the Old Testament and all three could keep right on going as they are now. Admittedly Jews would miss it terribly, but they'd have their Talmud and traditions. Christians would have the NT and saints. Muslims wouldn't even blink.
Might be nice to be able to say Jews and Christians and Muslims were really just one Abrahamic group. I think people wish too hard that saying it could make it be true. I'll try to keep this short.
Though Christian liturgy might be barely recognizable to a Jew it is Roman. It does claim to copy Judaism's design, however Christianity, like Roman culture, borrows from all cultures brazenly viewing them all as sources of the truth of God, not just Jewish culture. To Jews this is mixture (though they may borrow many practical things from other cultures such as food recipes). Judaism does not anticipate finding God's truth in outside sources like a Hopi Indian ritual, but Christianity does. Muslims don't derive from Christians or Jews as far as everyone knows. Instead they appear around 600CE condemning both Christianity and Judaism as corruptions and false copies of Islam. This isn't shared history to me. To me it looks like opposition in all three directions.
Much of Christianity is I think going through a long Victorian phase, but it can change to help homosexuals instead of making them outcasts, and there is longstanding discussion and study about it. Reform Jews already support homosexual lives as do Quakers and some liberal (US term) churches. Islam probably is always going to outlaw homosexual living permanently, but I know of homosexuals who live in Islamic countries. They seem to have some way of living there though I don't know if they can be Muslims or not. I think the three religions in question aren't all eye to eye on this topic. The three are increasingly at odds when it comes to this, and they don't share a common teaching. I think it is because they have very little in common.
All new life comes from already living cells.