To claim that religion has done more damage than good is to separate humanity from its very quest for knowledge. The origination of religion (at least in my opinion) is to explain the inexplicable.
Yes, religion has done damage over the years. It's also spurred some of the greatest scientific quests in all of history. Separating the two in historical terms is fallacy and has only come into prominence with the "modern" method of thinking, which is a parting of church and state.
Too many people cast off the good of religion in favor of the bad it has caused; it's a short-term way of thinking. Humanity is evolving and I'd like to think it's moving toward a sense of freedom from dogmatic ways of thinking. Unfortunately, I think too many people are shifting their dogma from religion to science, and it's simply one "unexplainable" to another (more rational in their head) "unexplainable".
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