Dead on..  In any event, all this blather about religion causing evil is just that, blather - people do evil.  They take religious (or political) ideas and twist them so that they can justify running riot over others.  

The ideals of Christianity - as Jesus Christ spoke them - are actually quite beautiful.  As are those of many other religions and prophets. 

Clever unscrupulous men and women twist these ideals, and provide their weak-minded followers with justification for whatever nastiness they have in mind.  It's actually astonishing how many weak-minded followers are available to the right leader - just look at some of the ones in our modern and secular world.

Removing religion from society won't change human nature, and in some cases might even remove some barriers to bad behaviour.  

Just my 2 cents, since the 'religion is the root of all evil' line is really rather lame.  It's stopping people from seeing the real problem.