I think the religions are really just branding. If we want to understand why they function as they do, we should consider the logic underpinning them.

Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family and cycle of life as godhead. To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculture. One people, one rule, one god.

The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. Basically to validate The Big Guy Rules.

Logically a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The consequence was that Western culture was founded on the premise of ideals as absolute.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The creed, heroes, monuments, etc, around which people define their communities are ideals. The locus of communal structure, without which, it goes Tower of Babel.

Yet there are multitudes of such structures, so when some group decides their creed is absolute and therefore universal and beyond question, not only must all others be false and misleading, but affronts to the one true religion.

All three monotheistic religions tend to act in this manner. It's just that Israel is the eye of the storm.

So it becomes all against all.

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/gods-problems-cdab66ed5f04

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/why-culture-is-not-reality-7cb4f0867a4d