When blind religious passion rules people, all norms of justice and law are cast aside. (religion-online.org)
An interesting and suggestive aspect of his gender - based analysis is the near - total absence of religion as a cause of violence, unlike standard liberal narratives that attribute the progress of Western society to the taming of religious passions through secularization. (firstthings.com)
The Old Testament prophets had a message and produced a literature which for religious passion and ethical discernment has not been equaled anywhere outside the words of Jesus. (religion-online.org)