Socialist Progressives

do you mean large, or is it a judgement call?

Those are things that are supposedly universal in most belief systems. Yet, ignorance, greed, anger, and hatred are also common in some of those same belief systems. This is an interesting thing to ponder. Christianity, of course, has a bloody history, and it's often that bloody history that Christians, pastors and flock, cling to. I don't know enough about Islam to comment, except that jihad is not peaceful.

I think I read somewhere, once upon a time, that the older a faith gets, the more metaphorical, less literal, more peaceful it gets, and that Christianity is a relatively "young" faith. I don't know about that, either; I'm just remembering reading it.

Your comments about Buddhism resonate with me, but then, they would. Those ideas are familiar; my mother is a Buddhist. It has worked very well for her. She turned to Buddhism in her 50s in a desperate effort to heal life-long wounds and manage her own fear and depression.