• As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

    Jon Krakauer: As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.
    Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.17, Pan Macmillan