Which Abrahamic religion do you have the most favorable view of?

[Damião de Góis]

I have a more favorable view on Catholicism, for obvious reasons.

[LightHouse89]

Do Puritans still exist in USA? I thought most Anglo-Americans were Baptist...I'm not sure what WASP's from the north-east are though.

Puritanism itself became Baptist Christianity, Mormonism etc....it split off into various sects. I dislike Evangelicalism though but that too is a spin off of Puritanism. Most are mix....a lot of Anglicans to the North of Massachusetts. Baptist Christianity is here a lot too. My girl friend is Baptist.

[turkojew]

jewry

[sean]

None.

Dogmatism, absolute truth, the fact that no other group of religions have killed each other so much claiming to follow the same God and have extinguished so many native cultures across the globe from as far as Latin America, South East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa etc. that don't worship their God despite the fact that the only proof they have of the existence of their God is that they are drowning in their own truths.

At least Judaism by nature considers all non-Jews as inherently inferior, whilst other religions do not care as long as you convert. It was culturally bound to the Hebrews and did not promote expansion - although the Levitical code of law did allow for converts as long as they submitted to the same laws, and in the case of adult males, underwent circumcision.

Judaism used to be more of a 'proselytizing religion', and I think part of why Christianity and Islam surpassed it is because they lack so much of an ethnic quality; Judaism sets out laws that only Jews are obligated to abide by (in addition to the basic Mosaic Laws for everybody to follow), but Christianity and Islam set out rules for everybody to follow, and that's not an appropriate ideology for a multi-ethnic state with constantly changing borders (Eritrea, South Sudan, East Timor).

Spoiler!

Judaism doesn't have some sort of bullshit aggressive recruitment policy either. Islam on the other hand is inextricably bound up with Arabic culture, while anyone can become a Muslim, it requires the adoption of many customs that may be foreign to the adoptee's native culture. Their societies (Arabic or not) need to ground their systems of law, custom, etc. in an ideology that transcends ethnicity and location. Just like globalism.

[Hektor12]

Islam on the other hand is inextricably bound up with Arabic culture, while anyone can become a Muslim, it requires the adoption of many customs that may be foreign to the adoptee's native culture. Their societies (Arabic or not) need to ground their systems of law, custom, etc. in an ideology that transcends ethnicity and location. Just like globalism.

Very true, islam was globalism of the time, like its predecessor, christianity.