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If I hand a man a hammer, and that man uses it to bash someone in the head, do we blame the hammer? Do we say that the hammer is evil and dangerous?
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Of course not. But if you hand a person a religious system that teaches that women should be subservient to men, gays should be killed, blacks should be slaves and it's all right to molest children then yes, the religion is evil and dangerous (of course assuming that those are bad things).
Hammers and science are tools and methods of doing things or acquiring information. Religion is an end-result statement of the way you should live your life based on the written word of men who have been dead for 2000 years.