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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

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

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

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.

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.