Timothy Radcliffe Quotes

In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.

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

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

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.

… fight idolaters wherever you may find them; take them and besiege them, and waylay them at every outpost.

To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

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

More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

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.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

Jewish extremism and Islamic fanaticism fed each other.

Over the course of history many religions have fallen victim to violent interpretations.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

Make war on them until idolatry does not exist any longer and Allah's religion reigns universally.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Terrorists have hijacked our religion.

The Catholics and Protestants … are occupied in nothing but cutting each other’s throats.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.

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

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.