RICHARD DAWKINS' "The ROOT OF ALL EVIL"

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That statement in his piece is about what Dawkins seems to think of the situation "today" and not at that time

Gray writes about the book "The God delusion", and chapter "The roots of religion". The whole paragraph is on the book. And he writes pretty clearly 'if it were not inculcated in schools and families'. And a rubbish assertion to follow, of course.

Just to clarify, Thilak, Gray has used a present unreal conditional clause here. He's indeed talking about the present.

Dawkins never really manufactured a scenario that religion would not exist if it had been stopped in schools and families at "present".

The passages I quote is what Dawkins infers had been the reason why religious behavior had been propagated thus far, and that is a by-product.

Gray had got it wrong EVEN if he talked about "present". As I maintain, the bloke never got to read the book. And there are judgmental assertions spread across the article.