Religious values can be warped or perverted but when people are true to its real value religious faith can be immensely liberating.

For all the resentment of America, remember -- the basic values of America are our values too -- Britain and Europe -- and they are good values,

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

His values didn't come from athletics, but it was his faith in Christ. He just lived it, and people knew where he stood and they respected it.

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.