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I know this is going to be controversial here, but I'm not a fan of religion.
Religions are fine, it's large organized religions with a focus on showing off that tend to be used to commit atrocities.
Afaik not much violence has been done in the name of buddha or ganesha, and the satanic temple is an officially recognized religion in the USA at least and they're just objectively good.
Check out the Sri Lankan Civil War before you're so quick to dismiss the idea of Hindu & Buddhist religious violence. The founder of LTTE ("Tamil Tigers") was very explicit that he was inspired by the Bhagavad-Gita to run an organization heavily featuring suicide bombings and violent extortion of Tamil communities in other countries.
Look at Ayodhya, Amritsar, sectarian violence in Gujurat, or all of the Hindutva rhetoric from Modi. Not to mention the entire history of violent enforcement of caste privilege.
Yeah, tbh I wish I knew more about the Indian caste system so I can properly understand how horrible it is. It's like someone who has never lived in a capitalist society, doesn't understand what steam trains are or what mustard gas is, and has only a basic understanding of the Abrahamic religions mostly via American Christianity, trying to explain the Holocaust to themselves beyond "Nazis kill children" and "Hitler was an evil overlord who hated Jews"; It gets the general picture (slave labor, cruel oppression, etc.) but is far too vague to trigger the sadness, anger and desire to never forget or repeat it that should accompany it.
and also never forget that the Catholic church, some of whom were actual nazis, helped war criminals escape to south america. The US also had a hand in that, to counter communist movements.
But yeah, back to how much religions suck. All of them with no exception.
Any good quality they impart is better derived from secular humanism, imo