“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'” PeopleWorldNeedsBelieveWellsBeliefReligiousVirtueNiceDoorsTeachingSafeEvidenceExtremismExtremistOh WellCriticise Author:Richard Dawkins
“Extremist groups like People for the American Way attack Christians who run for public office as a threat to the 'separation of church and state,' though they never specify why conservatives are any more of a threat than churchmen and church women on the Left who have led religiously inspired causes for decades.” PeopleWayStatesRunningChristianLeftCausesChurchReligiousGroupsOfficeThreatInspiredDecadesSeparationChurch And StateExtremistSeparation Of Church And StatePublic OfficeExtremist Groups Author:Ronald H. Nash
“In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics.” EyeChristianReligiousChristianitySpringPressesRadicalReformationExtremistProtestantsFundamentalistZionistProtestant Reformation Book:The Turning Tide Source: The Turning Tide
“The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.” IfsChristianReligiousChristianityGermanySubstitutesRegimesNaziPaganismExtremist Book:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Source: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany