Salman Rushdie, Novelist [1947-]:
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.
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