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Gideon--there is another leg to Dawkins' thesis, and that is, whether or not God exists, and as a scientist he says the probability is very small. This leads on to the question of why we should worship something that probably does not exist? That is, why have religions?
Now, you point out that "crappy people do crappy things. And sometimes those crappy people are religious, sometimes they're not". I would like to add that good people do good things. And sometimes these good people are religious, sometimes they're not. So, assuming I am good...I can be good, and worship something that probably does not exist, or I can be good... Thus, I don't think an argument from morality is particularly useful when discussing religion.
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