The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of real, decent religion. Voltaire got it right long ago: 'Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.' So did Bertrand Russell: 'Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.


The God Delusion (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008) - ISBN: 9780547348667

Richard Dawkins Quotes

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of...

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of...

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of...

The take-home message is that we should blame religion itself, not religious extremism - as though that were some kind of terrible perversion of...