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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 that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

… they shed the blood of Christians like that of the pagans

Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

Religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians versus Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians versus Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants versus Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims versus Hindus), Sudan (Muslims versus Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims versus Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims versus Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists versus Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims versus Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite versus Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians versus Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis versus Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years.

Arab Christians are not Christians, I am not leaving them until they become Muslims or I cut their throats.

We’re not fighting for Christianity but against human fanaticism of all kinds.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

Catholic Menace to Our Government

Ours is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world. Your Majesty will do the human race an eternal service by extirpating this infamous superstition

More people have been killed by religious philosophy … yet we do not prevent their books from being distributed.

If we look back into history for the character of the present sects of Christianity, we shall find that few have not in their turn been persecutors, and complainers of persecution.

The biggest danger of this terrorism and extremism is the tarnishing of the reputation of our beloved religion... We will not allow this to happen.

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.