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All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.