"Good" people? "Bad" people? I laugh. Anyone who can blithely divide the human race up into such imaginary and arbitrary categories as that has little to say of much use, in my opinion.

All people have the potential to act well and wisely...or destructively and unwisely. Most people act unwisely when they are subjected to unusual stress. Then other people say they are "bad".

Humph.

I never met anyone yet who wasn't religious about something. But most of them are religious about their own ego more than anything else. They serve it with the fanaticism and blindness generally ascribed to religious fanatics. That doesn't make them "bad", it just means they have lost their way, that's all.

No soul is bad in its original nature. If it was, then God would have to be bad too! (explanation: God = life itself = existence itself...ALL existence) And if that were the case...well, we'd have a bigger problem to deal with than either Mr Dawkins OR organized religion! We would all be "bad".

I guess there are some crazy religions out there who think we ARE all bad, aren't there? Talk about a twisted point of view...

Shambles - I see good people doing "bad" things all over the place...more often for the sake of money or convenience or security than anything else. Religion runs a poor third to those much more prosaic concerns in our world. People also do bad things in the name of their government. They also do bad things when ordered to by superior officers. You don't need organized religion to motivate good people to do bad things. Communists did bad things all over the place while categorically denying organized religion.

Go tell Dawkins to find a new obsession on which to pin society's problems.