The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
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More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.
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