"Religious dogma has killed more people in Europe than the Black Death, yet it seems blindingly obvious that if people are capable of believing different certainties, then no version can be reliably considered the absolute truth.
It would be quite possible, as an experiment, to invent a completely nonsense religion - based on, say, the films of Walt Disney - convert a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea to this new creed, and then see how long it was before they were prepared to kill for it. 'There is only one duck and his name is Donald. Daffy is a false prophet and Warner Bros are the enemies of the one true faith.'"
- John O'Farrell, 2007
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