Religion a boon or bane

Religion is a set of concepts and very strong beliefs that have been engrained since a tender age. Alongside, we have been fed constantly that people of diff religions are set to ridicule our religious concepts and HARM 'your' people. When there is an 'attack' against your religion in terms of actual killing or ridiculing your beliefs, it sets a deep unrest - a deep sense of insecurity. Insecurity for your life, insecurity regarding the concepts that you have lived by, and may be, will die for it. No wonder people are so upset and angered when their religion comes under any form of threat, that they will forget the principles of their own religion and resort to impulsive acts. In addition, no wonder why it is so easy to mislead people in the name of religion.That religion has been both a boon and a bane.