WHY IS GENUINELY HELD BELIEF SO CRUELLY ABUSED?

As a practising (but still very bad) Christian, if I I read about a teacher in a school for different faiths in another country who had held a competition between the children of varying faiths to pick a name for a teaching aid and the children had chosen a perfectly ordinary name - 'Jesus', say - which may be shared by a large number of men in that country and across the Christian world, and the authorities in that country had taken exception to this exercise and arrested that teacher for this perfectly normal exercise to engage her pupils, I imagine I would be amused first, then horrified at the idiocy of the authorities concerned, then disappointed that my faith was so misunderstood by some people that they would undertake such mind numbingly stupid actions in its name.

I imagine I would question the validity of my faith if can be so abused. But then that is the fundamental weakness of religion. Beautiful ideals are always perverted by people seeking to reinforce their positions here on earth - and that near fatal conflict at the root of all religion is why I will always be a very bad Christian.