Even now, institutional churches in their traditions of imposing hierarchical/ institutional dominion over people, distort personal consciences in their understanding how all life is essentially interdependent.
Consciences imposed on people by top-down, one-kind-fits-all authoritarianism are not competent to function authentically in differences of real-world situations. Maturing in an authoritarian environment that torques conscience to serve top-down interests/ beliefs above all else promotes a psychology of top-down dominion that allows no freedom of conscience.
Institutional self-gain, self-profiteering, and the like are the people types produced by imperious religion/ politics. Suffer with them the hurt also of followers of Islamic Law who are violently politicized under an ancient, traditional politics of violently imposed religion closed to sensitivities of evolving consciousness/ conscience. Love for other supposes understanding other - in this regards, religions yet fall short