Should each religion be known for its worst attributes, its best, or both?

Question

Here are a couple of prominent ones.

CHRISTIANS WORST: Burning witches; the Crusades; the Inquisition; collaboration with the Nazis; sexual & moral rigidity; oppression of ethnic and sexual minorities; promoting theocracy; believe they are going to heaven to the exclusion of everyone else
CHRISTIANS BEST: Founding hospitals, colleges, and orphanages; aiding the poor and homeless; patron of the arts (music, art, architecture); providing rituals to build community

MUSLIMS WORST: Oppression of women and homosexuals; attention on justice over compassion; sexual & moral rigidity; philosophy easily perverted to allow violence; too great an emphasis on community standards over individual liberty; promoting theocracy
MUSLIMS BEST: Patronage of arts, music and architecture; long history of advancing science; promoting charity; providing rituals to build community

How should we characterize these and other religions? Should we subdivide them? Are they responsible for fixing the problems?

Answer 1

Just goes to show that religion is man-made.

Answer 2

You judge a religion based on its context. If a religion advocates peace, forgiveness and compassion, and its followers resort to war, oppression, and wickedness you know that the acts of the followers are contrary to the religion itself.

As I always say, people who follow Christ are Christians, but people who follow Christians are Christianians

Answer 3

Religion should be followed for all of it's attributes. You must take the bad with the good. Understand everything about your religion.

Answer 4

If it's dogma it's trash-that should be all that is of relevance. If religion doesn't make you a happier more fulfilled human being you shouldn't be practising it.

Answer 5

It should be known for both

Answer 6

it is all the same (=) language to me...

Answer 7

good