Absurdity Quote by Richard Dawkins

“Voltaire got it right long ago: ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.’ So did Bertrand Russell: ‘Many people…

— Richard Dawkins

Needless to say, oftentimes a 'religion' is not needed to breed extremism. People breed it all by themselves, oftentimes with the subjective morality of…

— Steven Crowder

“Religious fanaticism is not the only clear and present danger in our world. The greatest dangers confronting human kind are still those ancient enemies…

— Tina Beattie

We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual…

— Sam Harris

“Extremism in religion is a mental mechanism to hide one's inferiority complexes.”

— Fahad Basheer

“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.”

— Stifyn Emrys

“The wars around the globe into which religion is woven -- violence that over the past two decades has sent many tens of thousands…

— Gustav Niebuhr

“Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism…

— Sam Harris

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

— Benazir Bhutto

Ignorance of the real causes of religious violence

— Mak_786

Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

— Ibrahim Hooper

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.

— Robert Pape