Does religion tend to make people better or worse?

[dead0man]

I'm going with the consensus, impossible to tell/lean slightly positive with a million caveats and exceptions.

It can give good people an excuse to carry on despite people sh**tting on their goodness.  It can make bad people feel guilty about the bad things they've done perhaps preventing future bad things.  It can also give bad people "godly" power that they use to abuse countless people causing good people to turn cynical.