People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

I have a very deep religious belief.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.