In my opinion, adherents of a devout religion will not commit evil. Because every religion in this world does not teach evil, even religion educates us to do good according to their respective religions. Evil occurs because someone does not achieve what he wants, that is:
- Popularity
- Justice
- Position
- Perspective
The proof is that in our country there are many adherents of religions who live in harmony side by side and are full of tolerance.
There is one thing we ought to understand here when it comes to religion and evil. One core characteristics of a Christian is forgiveness. The holy book teaches that you turn the other chick when slapped on the other. A lot of persons would never do that.
When you look at the Jihades, they believe in persecution of unbelievers in their religion yet, you would be told that, Muslim is a religion of peace and of course it is. If you look at the 5 pillars of Muslim, there is no violence about it. Yet, these persons perpetuate these evil against there neighbours. He Christian did there's some century ago and called themselves Christian crusaders.
In essence, its subject to interpretation and as such, through religion, good or evil can be perpetuated. Depending on who is preaching and the hearts that is receiving.
I want to add a little more to your statement.
I am not going to compare Christianity or the Muslim religion. All religions should be respected.
And you know, no religion is perfect. Errors in religion occur only when we become fanatical, and bigotry leads us to the worst.
A few days ago, I saw a twitter hashtag about "
Babri Mosque" that some Hindus had gone to the Mosque and vandalized. their claim was that Mosque was their temple a long long time ago. Actually, such behavior is never supported by Hinduism. Not only Hinduism but also not by any religion.
Again I've seen the news that some fake Muslims had gone to the temples of Hindus and vandalized them. why fake? cause such behavior is never supported by Islam.
The motto of every religion is to establish peace. And the incident seen in the news does not mean worship of religion but crime by worshiping religion. Religion should be practiced from the heart by avoiding bigotry.