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Moving away from the good or bad things that people do, and getting back to my original point a bit more, I still do not think people should respect religions by default. Let's look at the mad things people are told to believe and then ask why they simply believe it without question.
Jesus's mum was a virgin and his dad was God. No questions asked.
Adam and Eve were the first humans - oh, and no evolutionary process was needed for them to arrive.
Moses caused the sea to part. Was he a Jedi?
According to Mohammed, total and utter surrender to Allah is the only acceptable way. Why?
According to God, nobody gets into Heaven except through Christ. Where's the free will in that?
The Bible has reports of glowing angelic figures. Ah, maybe they're aliens?
I could go on, but the point I am always trying to make about religion is the fact that nobody ever challenges it or questions it. Religious people, aside from living wholesome lives or being downright nasty extremists, tend to believe - and I mean REALLY believe, hook line and sinker - a load of frankly daft fairy stories which, if they were introduced today as a brand new concept, would be laughed out of existence. It seems that any stupid story you care to make up will have no credibility unless it survives and gets old, then it becomes outrageously credible to some simply on the strength of its age.
I'd stretch this point to say that some areas of the Christian faith have, relatively recently, seen the sheer ridiculousness of the Adam and Eve story (at last) and revised their religious views to conform a little more towards the (highly provable) Darwinian theory of evolution. They call it "intelligent design" - it is still a hopelessly romantic religious fairytale of an idea with as much basis in reality as luminous angels and devils, but it does show that as time changes, religious ideas and beliefs can change. Does this prove that they were for many centuries WRONG before? Eh? Perish the thought...
Religions came about in civilization's infancy before any real understanding of the world was gained. It's time we grew up. Religions still exist because people either cannot leave this infantile obsession behind or it is one of the best and most elaborate con tricks on humanity ever. When you really look hard at any religious system, the flock always follow the shepherd, and the shepherd is often in it for the money, power, influence, or choirboys.
I saw elsewhere on this forum a discussion about a possible UFO sighting. If I came on here and told you all that the photo shows a real UFO containing advanced beings who were here to warn us of mighy disasters in 2012, would you believe me or question my motives / sources? I feel fairly certain you wouldn't just accept my comments on blind faith. Yet people are told that there is a big old angry god up there, and his prophets could perform miracles and summon angels (amid many other party tricks) - tales which are every bit as ridiculous as my UFO story - but nobody ever questions these tales or challenges the truth in them. Why? Why are people, good and bad, so willing to accept without question a set of stories as solid truths and conform to a set of lifestyle rules without ever asking that tiny question - WHY?
Ah, that'll be that good old fear and guilt thing keeping the flock under tight control I guess.