Millions of Americans find community comfort and support in their faith.
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
Let those who still in their youth have preserved their faith and fullness of hope keep looking up.
Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.
The great thing is that whether we have faith or not we are by and large very tolerant of people whatever their particular view.
There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people and these extreme radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims and going on to include Christians and Jews.
The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
For more than 200 years materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
Bad religion is arrogant self-righteous dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.