Interesting observations going on here. Yet, I see the negative or positive sides that happened around the followers of certain religions or non-religions. I think we should be able to distinguish between the actions of followers (who have their own agenda; name, fame, wealth) and the core messages of the religions that those people happened to be in. Does it actually have to do with the religion?

I blame more to the culture (which existed before religions and is more of a natural phenomenon..dictated by geography, climate, terrain etc) than to the religion. Unlike Freedom talks about the scientific advancement brought by the Christians, Europeans (Christians in your defn.) were merely barbarians until 13th/14th century. Muslim were the most advanced followers. Now things have changed quite a bit. 

Even before Muslims, Hindus were the most advanced. So is it the religion or the circumstances that causes a lot of upheaval; development to discoveries to war (due to inferiority complex)...?

Also the question..what next?