I'm less than convinced. Sure, Dawkins is absurdly optimistic in asserting atheism never provides the motive; but, if I can employ the "it's politics, not religion" defence so beloved of the theists, I don't suppose Tibet being a secular democracy would have made a blind bit of difference, for example.
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