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anything, ANYTHING can be exploited, and to say something can be faulted just by being able to be exploited is ridiculous. Judeo-Christian religions: Thou shalt not kill. Islam: Don't kill (not sure if Islam's rule against killing was with the Ten Commandments, but it's in there). Those are flat-out. They don't have a Fair Game rule. They say that killing is wrong. I don't recall anywhere in the bible that says "Don't kill people, except those motherfuckers over there!" They say don't kill. So the fact that people blame/attribute their misdeeds to their religion is in no way indicitive of the religion, and can in no way be BLAMED on the religion, because the second you allow that, if one allows the blame to be put on religion, then people can start taking away their personal responsibility for their actions. THAT'S why it's the same as blaming violent movies. It's just like anything else that takes the blame off of the people and onto something else. It is people that is the problem, not the religions that flat out say that what those people are doing is wrong.
Hell, the only religion that I could even a LITTLE bit understand placing any blame on is the Buddhist principle that both evil and good must exist, but I've never heard anybody kill in the name of Buddhism.
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