Because Quote by Steven Pinker

“It is a neglected but essential fact that we cannot appreciate the relationship between religion and violence unless we grasp the nature and meaning…

— Jack David Eller

Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I'd be struck by the fact…

— Lawrence Wright

“Incompatible religious doctrines have balkanized our world into separate moral communities, and these divisions have become a continuous source of bloodshed. Indeed, religion is…

— Sam Harris

“Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in…

— Sam Harris

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent,…

— Karen Armstrong

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

— Elie Wiesel

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

— Desmond Tutu

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

— Thomas Keating

There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove…

— Salman Rushdie

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets…

— Huston Smith

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

— Desmond Tutu

“The fact that religions, which usually have at their core a promotion of tolerance and peace, have been exploited to carry out violence clearly…

— David R. Smock