Ake, you're picking and choosing examples based only on a prior agenda. You're cherry-picking.

Religion is also responsible for all the positive moral concepts that underly our entire system of civil laws...without which you could not have a coherently functioning society at all. They all originated in the teachings of the major religions.

The examples you gave...

" torn limbs and bloodspattered cars in Iraq.
Murdered Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
Young Arab children churned under the tracks of Israeli tanks.
Jews massacred as they sit at their morning coffee."

...can be linked to religion, no doubt. They can also be more directly linked in most cases to the interplay of huge competitive financial and political forces as they attempt to control areas of land and strategic resources, dominate groups of people, and build empires. Grand imperialism, in other words, cynically using religion as a very handy and provocative tool to get people whipped up emotionally so they'll go out and kill other people, enabling imperial designs to go forward.

The fighting in the Middle East is mainly about oil. Religion is used to motivate the fighters.

Empire is the real reason for the bloodshed. Religion is the excuse.

Pot Pot and Mao and Stalin killed millions of their own people...in the name of atheism. What will you do with that example?

Not quote it, I suppose... ;-)

Religion is just as handy for achieving good or evil purposes as is any other social concept. It is not good or evil in itself. It is made good or evil by the consciousness and purposes of the people who use it.