Pascal Boyer Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Pascal Boyer [R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions. Pascal Boyer intuition moral nihilism A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith. Pascal Boyer cognitive traits The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed. Pascal Boyer stakes cost violence