"Harm" wouldn't happen if people who follow a religion/claim to follow it don't bend it in their favor and be more tolerant and if people who don't follow it/dislike religion don't dismiss their beliefs, and yes religion has been mixed with politics, and as a muslims, something I've read and learned about directly from my religion is that mixing religion and politics can lead to countless problems with huge consequences, yet people, including ones who claim to be muslim and therefore should understand that, still mix it with politics, religions are always gonna be the victims of political leaders.
And also, to answer your other point, something I also learned as a muslim, bear with me for the sake of the point and speculate that god exists, "religion", is a manual of the connection between a follower and god basically, so no one really has the right to say someone isn't following a certain religion if they're not doing a particular thing in their religion or if they're bad at it, because it's no one's place to decide if they're following a religion or not but themselves, I mean have christian and muslims friends who drink, do drugs, have sex, etc, and in my opinion no one has the right to dismiss their being followers of whichever religion they want to follow.
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They took mah Jarrb!
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