“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Religiosity is suffocating in Pakistan. It invariably stokes the fire in driving society to religious extremism. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
“The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I told the priest my god is a black woman he poured holy water on me and scheduled me for an exorcism” — Ijeoma Umebinyuo Copy Share Image
“Jihadis! Please go to your imaginary heaven - out there, nowhere. Us, the infidel lot, have helluva lot to do after you… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that… — Roberto Hogue Copy Share Image
“The dangerous enemies of your species are fundamentalism, intolerance, separatism, extremism, hostility and prejudicial fear, be it religious, atheistic or political.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor… — Persia Woolley Copy Share Image
“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I put people before gods. I respect believers of all kinds and work to promote interfaith dialogue, but my whole life I've… — Zak Ebrahim Copy Share Image
“These preachers and priests are no more religious and wise than the parrot that keeps repeating the same words over and over… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It's of no consequence, what the monkeys feel; xenophobia belongs in DSM, not in democracy. Bible, Torah, Gita, Koran, all are welcome,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Beliefs are a quintessential part of the human psyche, but they can be both healthy and harmful. And the beliefs of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is more practical to make people transform their mindset about religion and religiousness and walk in the path of creed-less religious… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“The kingdom of god is within you, and you sold it to the highest bidder.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Religious extremism. We hear about it all the time. We see it all the time. Heck, most of us are just sick… — Steven Crowder Copy Share Image
“Authoritarianism has no place in religion. If you want to have true religion in your heart, then burn the scriptures and go… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Crawl to your God, you arrogant bastard. See if your God doesn't look at the slime trail you leave behind you and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Real religion does not mean Gods - it does not mean Angels and Demons - it does not mean miracles of healing.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Discriminations are never a sign of a civilized society. What makes us civilized is our act of liberated kindness with other people… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There seemed no way to make him understand an upbringing in which certain areas of the body were too shameful to be… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Disparate groups emerged within countries or without any national affiliation in the case of religious extremism, seeking power or to cause maximum… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is time we admitted, from kings and presidents on down, that there is no evidence that any of our books was… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
