Despite holding no religious beliefs of my own I am well aware that a great many religious people are doing many good and important things in this world and not asking for publicity about it.  The religious people who only seek to divide us against each other and carve out political power for themselves, meanwhile, find their way into the news by any and all means possible.  

As someone who has observed religion from the outside for many decades and who has traveled in Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic countries my takeaway is that religion - regardless of which one it might be - inspires good people to become better and bad people to become worse.  

In the long run the good that people do will outlast the bad.  Judge them first and foremost by how they treat others.  If they are kind, genuine and generous, nothing else really matters.