I visualize this in a horizontal plane, so there are no aboves or belows. Some beliefs are physically dangerous and deserve red flags, some beliefs are mentally damaging, some beliefs are physically and mentally damaging, and some beliefs are like wearing sunglasses. They all deserve red flags except maybe not the sunglasses

I used to believe all religions were equal in their absurdity, then I learned of scientology. Now I do consider how absurd and/or dangerous the beliefs are instead of just saying they're all absurd anyway.

People tend to say that Christianity or Islam are the worse religions, but others are just as intense. As an example, old Hindu texts say that, if you can't find a wife, it's ok to get a women drunk, rape her, then marry her before she wakes up. The same text also says that if the parents of the woman don't want to marry their daughters to you, it's ok to murder the guards, kidnap her, then marry her.

In a different frame of mind, in the Aztec religion, "willing" people would be sacrificed to the gods to ask for favors, like a good harvest or favor in wars and such. I say "willing" because the people that asked the favor had to actually want that favor granted, so they were treated well while they lived - a war prisoner might ask for the gods to punish those who sacrificed him or her instead. I remember reading the story of a girl that was sacrificed; from her remains, researchers were able to show that she was a poor woman in her first years, but one year before her death, probably when she was chosen as a sacrifice, she started getting very well fed and being given coca daily. It can let us infer that she was treated well so she would ask the gods what the priests wanted. As a side note, there were sport competitions in the old Aztec civilization, and the winning team would be sacrificed to the gods too. I guess that would prevent good teams from monopolizing the first place for years

Islam is by far the worst. But all religions are equally ridiculous.

I just all as equals. Whether it comes to religious beliefs or politics, everyone should be treated equal, even if you think otherwise. I disagree with a lot of people and don't have any problems with them living their lives and nor they have a problem with me living my life.

There are so many out there. Some worse than others depending on they treat their people and how fanatical they are in being brainwashed. The eastern religions treat their women worse than animals so imo, are very inhumane & at the bottom of all the religions because of their violence. Christianity would follow that and the cult based religions would be next in line. But really, all religions are cult based but the more violent extreme ones are the worse.

The judgement I make, is whether something I s right or wrong for me. I don’t tend to do well with organized religion - I ask too many questions. Or point out inconsistencies. I don’t know anyone is better or worse. It seems like when you get to the core of many, they’re similar.

1. Pastafarianism
2. Buddhism
3. Christians, Catholics, Jews, & Muslims
4. Jehovah, Mormons & Scientologist
   ?. the rest

I judge based on plausibility tempered by historical facts so something like the Jewish faith would be higher than the Mormon faith but it's safe to say that those "Scientology" folks are at the bottom.

Like most things they have their fundamentalist. Those I see as dangerous other wise they're all crap.

The Unitarian Universalists have no dogma and accept atheists not only into their congregations but into their governance. So the UUs are cool if perhaps overly moderate (One humanist agnostic friend of mine called the UU Church "the halfway house to humanism." )

Compared to other religions, I have more respect for Buddhism in its original form than for most (not the Greater Vehicle, which has all those bodhisattvas acting like intercessionary saints). In its original form, Buddhism is more of a philosophy and has no conscious deity. In that form, it's the only atheistic religion I know of.

Although I have issues with it, I have more respect for Judaism than for either Christianity or Islam - for two reasons: (1) It is not evangelical at all. In fact, you have to beg to become a Jew. The conversion process involves being rejected three times, and (2) in the postwar era after the Holocaust, a number of prominent Jews, including Elie Wiesel, had the chutzpah to put God on trial for breaking the Covenant with the Jews - and found God "Guilty!" When I heard about that, I was "Yes, yes, yes!!! I can get behind that. The first time leaders of a major religion have held their god to account for anything!"

As for newer traditions, I find that some pagans/Thelemites/Wiccans make sense to me and others don't. The more they describe their rituals and spells as metaphorical expressions of internal spiritual realities, the more sense it makes to me. If it's supposed to be literally true, then I can't follow. The same logic would apply to New Age, I think, although I don't know any New Age people to test that hypothesis.

On average I wouldn't hesitate to date a Unitarian Universalist or a metaphorically-minded pagan, and I would seriously consider dating a Jewish or Buddhist woman. By contrast, I would tend to steer clear of Christian or Muslim women.