I wish Jainism would have been included, seems to me the least reprehensible system. Maybe paganism is ok, though it depends how it is defined.
But in general, I think most religions are codified psychic impulses and drives, i.e. to dominate, subjugate, retaliate, hierarchize, to other and to exclude.
i.e. in Christian theology, one of the apparent joys of being in heaven, we are told, is being able to gaze upon those suffering eternally in hell (found in Tertullian, Augustine, Aquinas, Jonathan Edwards). What a delightful view of the meaning and summation of existence. If this isn't an obviously fabricated image based on ignoble human desires for revenge and schadenfreude, I don't know what is.
Buddhism isn't that much better in my view, with its theory of samsara, perpetual death, rebirth, suffering, caused by karmic energy. Just another man-made system to control behavior and thoughts through fear and intimidation ('until you stop desiring anything, thinking anything at all in fact, and annihilating your will, you will continue to be reborn and suffer. The point of all this is a state of ultimate nothingness, and you will continue to suffer until you attain this nothingness (p.s. killing yourself won't liberate you from the samsara cycle fyi, you didn't think you could get off that easily, did you?)'...Again, thanks for explaining existence to me and for the implied threats and subtle intimidation tactics. It's all more wonderful than I could have imagined...I guess all I have to do now is capitulate to your system, I accept being bludgeoned into submission since I have no other choice...)
Probably no religion encapsulates the meaning and purpose of the universe and life because either 1) there is no meaning and purpose and death is the end of everything and life is just a chemical blunder that happened on a random planet or maybe a few planets (i.e. 99.999% of the observable universe is inorganic and lifeless) before the eventual heat death of the universe or 2) the truth is more complex and astonishing than any human could ever conceive, and at death consciousness is somehow transferred to an unimaginable metaphysical plane of reality where a whole range of dmt-like quantum four-dimensional spacial topologies and possibilities and entities are experienced non-temporally. The question 'what is the meaning of this?' probably doesn't even occur because the meaning is somehow simply the experience itself, or is somehow evident so the question doesn't need to be asked. Perhaps your actions in life play a role in the type of experience you have, i.e whether you were generally kind or cruel to people and animals etc, perhaps not. Anyhow, this is already just speculation and rudimentary religious system-building so I'll stop there.
