4 am rants

When you think about it, whether religion is true or not, it has served as a lamp through the darkness, hope for that those who have passed are in a better place, hope that at the end of existence is not death, but a reunion with those you have lost. It's the reason people strive and attempt to be good people, help others and not let the human nature of destruction get to them. But if religion is about hope, why do some use it in an attempt to dim the lamp, to extinguish the fire of hope? If religion is about doing good, why are some people that subscribe to religion just so horrible? Because subscribing to a worthy cause does not make one a good person. I could have great morals and be a shitty person. I could be a part of any religion and be a sexist piece of shit. It does not make the religion bad; it makes the person bad, because they see old, outdated rules and apply it to a modern society where it is not allowed, because the take words of god and twist it. It doesn't make any one religion inherently bad or evil, it makes the people who twisted its words evil. 

I hate that some people can't understand that. I am not religious, but I don't think that societies misinterpretations of religions such as Christianity and Islam, should make people think their inherently bad.

edit: I get some people have some religious trauma and that's valid, I just don't think that just because a few people from one religion were absolute shitheads,that not all of them aren't.