Richard Dawkins. The selfish gene (№ 237361)

Blind faith can justify anything. If a man worships another deity, or even if it is in their worship of the same deity has a different ritual, blind faith can sentence him to death on the cross, on the stake, the sword of the Crusader, from a shot on one of the streets of Beirut or the explosion in one of the bars of Belfast. Memes of blind faith have their own, not knowing pity distribution methods; this applies not only to religion but also to patriotism and politics.