Amos, I think it's important to show how so-called "moderate" religion enables extremism.Sometimes it's difficult to separate them.

Dawkins is not Hitchens. Hitchens likes to fight whereas Dawkins is a humanitarian who
is interested in reason. Hitchens would prefer to keep religion as something he could bat around through argument but Dawkin's goal is to enlighten the public as to the ethics of science and the contribution of Darwin and to lessen the need for religion.

L.H., Pol Pot had his own "religion" going so I think you would be hard put to find much of a difference in oblations between him and the Ayatollah at least in their obeisance to dogma. The same "dogma" could be applied to Stalin and Bush. All this dogma resulted in human atrocities.

I think what could be written on US currency is "In Dogma We Trust". (It would be an improvement over the 1954 edict by a minister).

Frank