While many below share the same sentiment as I do that bad intentions are inherently the choice of the person; I do agree that religion makes it a whole lot easier to justify any slight.

All people do good and bad things, religious or not. To me the notion of good and evil people is just a way for people to separate themselves from people who do bad things because they themselves are good with good intentions.

I'm not convinced of this. All of us have good and evil potential; and there are varying degrees in both of these things. Anyone is capable of both of these things. I think that religious people use religion as an excuse for what they do oftentimes but I think the person who does evil can be be a religious person or not.

Well said.

or alternately

This goes into it's not bad if it's for god or if we're doing it. It is only bad if other people do blank and so on. Burn people alive? It's okay if it's for god. Etc.

Interesting point of view.