Hey Joseph - by saying the religious beliefs were designed, I'm assuming you are implying it is part of the original doctrine - can you please find some of Jesus' teachings (his words) that promote hate, racism, genocide, and war.?
The words a largely irrelavant - they could be 'The sky is purple'. The content doesn't matter, beyond being a regonizable and learnable dogmatic 'token' or article. It's how such tokens are employed in the manipulation and control of cultures and societies that count. Whether it's twenty gods or one; whether it's Zeus, Jesus, Allah, or the potted plant in the corner; the net result is largely the same.
This is a bunch of relativistic hooey. So my translation of said hooey is that it is not religion by design, but man's perversion of religion that leads to the things mentioned, correct?