I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I grew up very religious and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing not a controlling factor in American life.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Whether one believes or not religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive it remains vital inspiring great good and sometimes great evil.

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts 24/7 propagating Religious Right politics along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.