“No religion is responsible for terrorism — people are responsible for violence and terrorism.”

Speech in Berlin (29 November 1935), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9
1930s

History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (1910)

2015, The religion of Islam must reform (December 9, 2015)

In a nationally televised speech after the 2016 Gulshan, Dhaka attack. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36692613 (2 July 2016)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Simulacra and Simulation

Dissertation for doctor of philosophy in christian education (May 25, 1991)

"The Abolition of Torture" http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=dcGGvZpeEnhgPCp2PwTGAy%3D%3D, The New Republic (19 December 2005)
Context: Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit.
And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value. That is why the Geneva Conventions have a very basic ban on "cruel treatment and torture," and "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment" — even when dealing with illegal combatants like terrorists. That is why the Declaration of Independence did not restrict its endorsement of freedom merely to those lucky enough to find themselves on U. S. soil — but extended it to all human beings, wherever they are in the world, simply because they are human.

2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)