I don't disagree with anything you've said.This train of thought is daft.
There is no need for peaceful religion (any) to even discuss chopping limbs off, stoning women, whippings, crucifixions, torture and wars against non believers.
They are all highly effective army amassing tools of war that prey on the weak minded and impressionable. All the Angel had to do was come down and tell everyone to be nice and work together, none of the other banal tedious guff that rambles on for thousands of pages.
I interpreted that to go and plant Daffodils for spring.... What did you see?
What if the religions are a test from God, that even when apparently told to murder and rape by his magic book you are still strong enough not to so you truly are worthy of going to heaven? Do these idiots not even contemplate that?
Looking at history, as we've become more enlightened and scientifically aware, we've become more secular and less tied down to religious texts.