Blaming religion for doctors' murders is harder when you include Dr. Kevorkian, who demonstrated the kind of amorality many people fear will prevail in the world without religion. Remember, too, that Dr. Kevorkian and his kind of "treatment" has been soundly and consistently opposed by the religious community.

A completely unfair comparison. Dr. Kevorkian, right or wrong, was trying to end needless suffering, not to inflict it.

Say what! Dr Kevorkian helped willing patients to end their suffering. This may contravene the odd code or two, but you cannot seriously equate this with suicide bombing. The latter is a uniquely religious phenomenon.

I found Kevorkian's actions to be moral and ethical. Its the laws that say that people must be FORCED to endure agonies with no hope of ecovery because putting up with this kind of suffering is somehow 'pleasing' to God are the cruel unethical ones......

Kevorkian, who earned his nickname Dr. Death in the 1950's was no angel of mercy - but rather a vampire who simply enjoyed the spectacle. None of his victims lacked the capacity to take their own lives by other means. Kevorkian and his clients were more like co-enablers than doctor and patient. If you wish to kill yourself, there is no end of opportunity, and there is no need for Keverkian's thanatrons, court theatrics, or publicity seeking.

So, if it resisted by the religious community, it must be amoral. You seem to be making Hitch's point.

I must say this is one of the more absurd comparisons I could imagine anyone drawing here.

See "Arguments unrelated to a discussion" in the wikipedia entry for demagogy.