The root of ALL evil: religion?

Stating only that "There is no substantial proof that God exists." he continually belittles those who have any form of faith stating that they are all 'delusional'. This is a serious case of the intolerant 'humanist-athiest' pot calling the intolerant 'religious follower' kettle black. This strikes me as hypocritical in the extreme. He speaks on how things must be established by evidence, and then makes assumptions as to what 'must have happened' due to his reasoning. This is clear in his analysis of the Pope, having not disproven the theory that God exists and may or may not talk to the Pope, states that he KNOWS anything revealed to him was simply reasoned out of private thoughts. I'm not Catholic, nor do I follow what the Pope teaches, but I wasn't there and can't say that God wasn't either. I find it interesting that the theory of evolution is "what really happened", not science's current theory as to what may have led to the complexities of life. This demonstrates an example of 'faith' that he so dramatically derides. It is a 'faith' in the conclusions that have been presented that fit many of the facts discovered.

Thanks for that link. Dawkes is very aptly in his cruzade against 'religion', as if all religions were the same, and all, necessarily, would lead to evil. The problem is that what is called "religion" is a term as vague and adaptable as it is "politics". You can be religious for good as you can be political for good. Would anybody deny that politics is the root of all evil? But neither "politics" not "religion" in itself are good or bad, they are what men make of them. Imagine a documentary about the good Christians have brought on the world through the centuries: how many hospitals, nurseries, asylums, care for the poor... resumes in the word: Christian charity. From mediaeval attention of leprosy to Mother Theresa in Calcutta, who would have done this but for the love of Christ? But as sure as people do extraordinary things in imitation of our Lord, as sure is that even the noblest intentions are abused by those who take religion as a pretext to further their ambitions for power and their economical greed. But then, this is exactly contrary to true religion of all kind!