When we get locked into a belief and are forced to take it as a whole, we can easily get trapped into cutting our nose off to spite our face. Your notion of aligning with peace etc is a much better approach and bypasses all religions. We can also throw away labels as they become =meaningless. We no longer need to use terms like christian, muslim, etc because they just become tags of separation and juxtapose along with it a fragmentation of spirit into "us" being separate from "god."