Salman Rushdie Quotes about Atheist

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Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Salman Rushdie

Atheist, Religion, Fundamentalism

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.

Salman Rushdie

Atheist, Ideas, Religion

Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)