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We are all naturally xenophobic.

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

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

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.