As long as the people persist in voting for or against men on account of their religious views, just so long will hypocrisy hold place and power.

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.

He's in love with the notion of shame and he traffics the shit like a schoolground pusher, spreading it around but never personally using.

He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.