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“It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to human frailty and human differences. This goes against every human instinct, but organized religion has reorganized human thoughts. Some humans have even been turned against their own instinct for survival. And so people go around maiming and killing each other, because they've been told quite directly that this is what God does to them--and what God wants them to do to each other.”

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.”

World Different Religion Social Religious Function Strategy Killing Individuality Valuable Quitting Someday Luminous Killing Each Other

Book:The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

Source: The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition

“My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.”

Should Mind Different Might Religion Sin Views Teach Killing Conviction Cows Instill Different Views

Book:Communal Unity

Source: Communal Unity

“To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.”

Self Religion Belief Benefits Killing Oneself Deception Sheer Self Deception

Book:Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani

Source: Daridra-Narayana: Edited & Published by Anand T. Hingorani

“The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.”

People Matter Truth Earth Religion Sin Brother Truth Is Argument Tradition Murder Killing Excuse Innocent Tolerate Brothers And Sisters Sufi No Excuses Wrongdoing Always Wrong

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.”

Kind Mean Has Beens Self Religion Training Mere Killing Repentance Conceit Self Will

Author:C. S. Lewis