Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.

The remark contrasts the widely admired ethical ideals associated with Christianity—peace and love—with the behavior Dawkins argues is often exhibited by Christian institutions or self-identified believers. By framing peace and love as unobjectionable, he concedes the appeal of the religion’s moral rhetoric, then pivots to a critique: that many followers fail to embody those ideals, whether through intolerance, conflict, or moral hypocrisy. The line functions as a pointed secular moral argument: the problem, in his view, is not with benevolent sentiments themselves but with the gap between professed doctrine and lived practice, and with the social consequences when religious identity overrides those values.