For good people to do bad things...

[Darwinian]

It's surely the bad people that use religion as a mask to commit bad acts.

I thought Weinberg had it that it's good people using religion to do bad things. Either you now disagree with Weinberg and say it's bad people that use religion to do bad things, or you need to reassess your response to Padraic's excellent post.

P.S. Thank you, guys, for your responses. Judging by your generally consistent answers, how I interpreted Weinberg was evidently spot on.

You misunderstand.

I was commenting on this point.

Good people use religion to rationalise the most appalling acts. Without religion,they good people would find other excuses (such as "the national interest")

My point that it is surely bad people who would do this and not good. Unless I misunderstood the comment above.