The domination of major religions has been one the major cause of wars and conflicts around the world.
Do you
honestly expect us to believe that without any religion or with many religions that don't hold any sway over the people that practice them, the greedy and power-hungry of this world would have
any difficulty in finding suitable pretexts to start wars? No really, do you think that anything other than a different human genetic code would be
sufficient for the world to be even
slightly more peaceful? Wow! Ok no comment in case you believe that. Keep it up, it will make you happy.
No it's not- that's one flavour of Hinduism (and in any case that's more monistic than monotheist). What we call "Hinduism" is actually a huge grouping of local religions with related philosophy and folklore ranging all the way from purely tribal religions with some slight tinge of the vedas to the rarefied heights of Buddhism which subjects even the Gods to karma.
Quite true, with one little factual error. While it kind of started as a Hindu heresy, Buddhism is most definitely NOT Hinduism in any way, just as Christianity is not Judaistic in any way. Of course Christians do claim that Christianity is the true continuation of the Ancient Jewish faith, while Buddhists do not claim that about Hinduism.
The cultural environment in which Buddhism was born is a Vedic/Hindu one. But the end result is very, very different.