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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
The way you quoted it to support your proposition.
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I quoted it to show that I wasn't writing from a completely uninformed perspective. That I have read something is in no way an 'argument' in itself.
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No, actually. His suggestion was that religion is a powerful force to make good people do evil things, and yet have them think that they are doing good. There are a staggering number of examples of these down the years, I won't insult your intelligence by actually quoting any.
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This
is silly.
One (obvious, if I may so so) problem with this argument is that it allows for practically anything to be bandied as the 'root of all evil'. Capitalism? Football? Love? Patriotism? Anti-Semetism? Science? The list goes on.
Moreover, how does Dawkins define a 'good' person and 'evil' person?
All Dawkins seems to be pointing out is that people occasionally do bad things and mistakenly think that they are doing good things; and that sometimes religion is a catalyst. That people make mistakes is obvious, and is in fact one of the central tenets of Christianity. All religions are inherently a human structures to some extent, and all are fallible as such. However, religion is not the 'root of all evil', by any means; nor is it sensible to label some people innately 'good' and others evil'.