Ah, that old red herring again. That's always the line taken by people trying to get religion off the hook for the bad behaviour of its followers, as if religion existed out there as some Platonic ideal that people keep perverting. That doesn't work. If the meaning and value of a religion is not found in the behaviour of the people who profess to follow it, then it isn't anywhere, there's nothing else to judge, it just becomes a set of ideas unconnected to reality. Which for my money, in a more fundamental sense it is anyway. If religion's basic claims are true, there's no point in trying to understand the world, there's no point in trying to do science, anything we think we've figured out is subject to change by supernatural agents that we more or less by definition can never understand, and if religion's basic claims are false then most people throughout most of history have spent their whole lives misunderstanding the reality around them and wasting a lot of resources on pointless and meaningless activities. No prizes for correctly guessing which side of that I come down on.
