8 May 2024
"Ikeda: “Terrorism and bloody ethnic conflicts are less clashes of civilization than clashes of the anger, egoism and brutality inherent in life and disguised as narrow nationalism and fanatical religious ideas.”
"Today, as science forges ahead, religion tends to take a kind of backseat as unscientific and irrational. Unfortunately, throughout history, raging religious fanatics have done great damage. But, on the positive side, religion has provided indispensable models for living in a better fashion. If religion is renounced by an age that believes exclusively in science, conscience and morality will be marginalized. Then arrogance (ego manifesting eventually as anger) will return in disastrous ways." Daisaku Ikeda From 'The Persistence of Religion' a dialogue between Harvey G. Cox and Daisaku Ikeda