"The statement that wars have been fought in the name of God is a non squitur. As the theologian Walter Wink once pointed out, more people have died in the twentieth century?s secular wars than in the preceding fifty centuries of fighting combined?. No religious war in history, not all the religious wars of history added together, did as much damage as this century?s wars of nationalism and ideology. So if we are to ban religious sentiment from public life because it has been responsible for so much horror, let us not forget to ban advocacy of freedom or justice as well."

?Stephen L. Carter, Civility (1998), p. 252