# Quote — Derren Brown, Tricks Of The Mind

> Moderate religious people may of course express distaste for such violence, pretending that the clear calls for grotesque and violent behaviour in their sacred book aren't there and cherry-picking the 'nice bits', but they are still guilty of not opening up the subject of belief to rational discourse, and in doing so are part of the machinery that leads to all the ugliness caused by fundamentalism.

- Author: [Derren Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derren-brown.md)
- Book: [Tricks Of The Mind](https://www.leafyquotes.com/derren-brown/tricks-of-the-mind.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/derren-brown/tricks-of-the-mind/moderate-religious-people

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> In the same breath, one might add that the atheist is surely as religious as the Christian, in that he has adopted a set of beliefs to which he chooses to rigorously adhere. While it’s temptingly clever to make that claim, it is a nonsensical statement; no more logical than to say that a Christian is a type of atheist. Having a set of beliefs about religion is not the same as being a religious True Believer.

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> The sort of ill-informed armchair moralizing that pours from the permanently outraged, Daily Mail-reading mentality is one of the more revolting and frightening aspects of our society.

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