You could try using Cromite just for this.

I don’t know how direct quotes from the aforementioned religion’s books and the books themselves, supposedly written by their Gods, would be “misinterpretation” or “misrepresentation”. And although my knowledge is limited in the case of Buddhism, at least AFAIK the religion essentially focuses on accepting one’s suffering and ending it by losing one’s desires. It does have delusional aspects such as reincarnation, but I don’t really think they see Buddha as an absolutely virtous prophet. I could be wrong though, and I wouldn’t mind some sources for your claims.

You can just read them to be honest:
Skeptic’s Annotated Quran
Skeptic’s Annotated Bible
Of course these are only for the 2 most popular religions, and it is impossible to say that every religion is evil because there are religions we don’t know about and Buddhism isn’t inherently evil.

A more accurate statement would be that all Abrahamic religions are evil; with their genociding gods and child-fucking prophets. Literally by name they have a child-murdering schizophrenic as their central figure.

For anyone who’s not aware:
https://stallman-report.org/

Use bridges? I don’t think it would be possible to block WebTunnel for example.

What makes you say that? Any e-mail provider can intercept and read any e-mail they want to. This explanation by cock.li is pretty good on this issue:

How can I trust you? You can’t. Cock.li doesn’t read or scan your e-mail content in any way, but it’s possible for any e-mail provider to read your e-mail, so you’ll just have to take our word for it. No “encrypted e-mail” provider is preventing this: even if they encrypt incoming mail before storing it, the provider still receives the e-mail in plaintext first, meaning you’re only protected if you assume no one was reading or copying the e-mail as it came in. When possible, you should use X.509 or GPG with your mail correspondents to encrypt your message content and prevent it from ever being handled in plaintext on our servers. You should also download and delete your mail from our servers regularly, which alone is almost as good as encrypting your mail.

It still does, but they did add a username system so you don’t need someone’s phone number to contact them.

The lack of PFS and 256bit encryption in Session is a little concerning, and one other advantage of SimpleX is that it has no unique identifiers at all while Session uses random IDs and Signal requires a phone number.

Please don’t use Linux Mint with KDE, you will just get a much worse experience. Cinnamon is very customizable. I don’t know what the OP means by “layout”, but if they’re talking about the taskbar that can be customized too.

Relevant link: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=426770

I would also use Signal instead, but Session’s situation is not that bad unless one needs to accommodate the CIA or Mossad as part of their threat model, in which case I think SimpleX would be a better option. This is also in the article you posted:

Edit: I didn’t notice that the original commenter had said they “switched from Signal” at first, which is definitely worse.

It’s based on Ubuntu 22.04 (the Ubuntu release of April 2022) so it’s really out of date.