Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.

America wants its respect.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Is woman a religion? Well perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.