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Originally posted by sapiens
More generally, I think opponents of religion give it too much credit for all of the bad things that go on in the world. It's always: "If we just got rid of religion, everything would be ok." (Dawkins often sounds this way in his rants about religion. Especially post-9/11. See here for an example: ).
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I don't think that Dawkins has ever said that religion is the root cause of all evil in the world.
His position is clear:
A) A lot of the evil in the world is atrributable to religion (either directly or indirectly) and
B) Religion does a lot more harm than good.