If everyone was atheist

[Mister Agenda]

You can use "evil" as an adjective to describe something without believing in some supernatural force behind it.

I have to say nothing would really change.  Sure, there would be a lot of things for the better, but we're human beings.  We'll be a self-destructive species no matter what people believe in, so we'll find new stuff to wreak havoc with.

Fair enough, thank you for clarifying.

So when you say "religion is evil", what exactly do you think of religion as being? An entity? A philosophy?

I'm just wondering because sometimes people speak of religion here as being some sort of entity in itself. Rather than saying "some people who are religious have done bad things" you say "religion has sometimes done bad things."

Would you be this confused about whether we're confused about the difference between entities and ideologies if we said 'fascism has done some bad things'?