#zealotry

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel."

"Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego."

"From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable."

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."