Don't be a berk Don, of course he is equating the two. Haven't you been following what he is saying?   He is retreating from his long held position that Christian education is child abuse and "a grievous wrong" to use a Dawkins phrase and tossing out the "female genital mutilation" bomb to cover his tracks.

female genital mutilation is a grievous wrong.

Sunday school is not.


There is the line. That is the difference. Equating the two is the kind of seed that Dawkins places in damaged minds.