Faith-Based Conflict Quotes

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.

Holy war for Muslims is a religious war, and a religious war is something you never stop fighting.

Sacred struggle …. Holy war

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

It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There are no New Testament verses that say, Kill unbelievers.

Our crisis of the house divided was a Christian civil war.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.

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

In the States anything dealing with religion, people go nuts, because they are nuts.

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide.

If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.

I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.

If you’re secure in your belief system you can shrug off criticism. The Islamic rioters about the movie are not secure.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

The evils which sapped the nation’s strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

No kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.

… the strangest sight in the world—two races hating one another for the love of God

I think every religion is founded with good intentions, but with any good thing, there's a negative use for it.

Wars have always started over religion.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?