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Wouldn't exactly say "Religion has done, and continues to do, so much evil in the world" because that's like saying if you leave your gun unsupervised, it (the gun itself) is going to go on a killing spree. The problem is people using religion as a cover to do attrocius things. It's always been people; some of us kinda suck, frankly. Religion itself isn't a problem, when one understands that no one religion has remained unaltered from whatever original message it started with (which, I'm not gonna pretend was perfect or anything, unless it was firmly "people ought to be kind and love one another regardless of their differences", but just saying, there wasn't originally a concept of Hell as a place of suffering and damnation in any of the Abrahamic Religions, not even Judaism as far as I remember--that came from outside beliefs and got added in later by people who NEEDED it to be that way for whatever reason).