Religion is about control, and the folks who wrote those "holy" texts weren't stupid- they knew that the best way to keep people believing (and thus giving them power and/or wealth) was to scare them into staying in the fold.  And that in large part meant demonizing any other belief system (and often other ethnicities) … Read more

Because the people who do the tearing down are morons, and they will always be morons regardless of religion. They are just using it as an excuse for their bad behavior.