I am in no way suggesting that all the worlds evil and hatred is bound up in religon.
I worry about the fact that certain beliefs are so widespread that they are taken as fact.
The recent Islamophobia is a very good example.
As far as I can tell all relgions treat women as second class citizens, religon tends to be on the side of the man in all aspects of life!
There are probably a couple of examples of woman having more rights than men but I don't know of them and I do know of hundreds where women are basically treated as breeding stock.
As for homosexuality don't get me started.
I know that spirituality is not religon but religous factions hold a lot of power in both the political and social arenas and are rich enough to force their views of the world onto people who don't share it.