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“ It is surely not news… that religious conflict has often been murderous and that religious people have committed hideous atrocities. But so have secularists and atheists, and though they have had less time to prove their mettle in this area, they have proved it amply. If religious belief is not synonymous with good behavior, neither is absence of belief, to put it mildly.
What the New Atheists Don’t See by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 2007
Dalrymple does a much better job of expressing what I was saying here.