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I don't want to talk to much about Dawkins, but... You are right. Dawkins has never said that religion is the root cause of all evil in the world. I never said that he said religion is the root cause of all evil in the world, but I did say that he "sounds" like that. Very fuzzy language on my part. I should have been more clear. Certainly violence acts are committed that have nothing to do with religion. I'm sure that Dawkins would recognize that. I should not have characterized Dawkins in that way.

I still think that Dawkins pushes too hard that getting rid of religion would reduce evil in the world. Dawkins credits religion as the "underlying souce of the divisiveness in the Middle East", and describes "the devaluing effect that religion has on human life", etc. He seems to characterize religion as an independent causal entity. I don't think that religion is an independent causal entity. It is a human product. (More specifically, a product of the interaction of humans with their environment). I think that if you got rid of religion, you would still see similar levels of violence worldwide.