"Given the requisite beliefs, it's possible to conciously create immense harm without even haivng bad intentions toward anyone. It's not that your bad intentions and your hatred of others somehow gets a sacred framing by religion... that also happens and its a problem. In the worst case, you can actually be feeling compassion while creating terrible harms.

These [Iraqi terrorists] are going to blow up their own children, what possible good could we do here trying to build a nation? The people that did this didn't actually hate the children... because they know the children are going to go straight to paradise. They've actually done the children a favor." - Sam Harris