There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity, hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. […]

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.
…There is no such thing as … separation of state and church … in the Constitution. It’s a lie of the left.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Whatever is Christian is legal; whatever is not is illegal.
No religion can long continue to maintain […]

The United States government must not undertake to run the Churches. When an individual, in the Church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest he must be checked.
Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public […]

But we must not forget… this ritual expressed… certain ideas which lie at the very root of true religion, the fellowship of the worshippers with one another in their fellowship with the deity, and the consecration of the bonds of kinship as the type of all right ethical relations between man and man.
In all the […]

In the faces of men and women I see God.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our […]

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.
All … religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each […]

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another’s creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our […]

If I were personally to define religion I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth […]

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable … and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does […]

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh.
Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them.
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of the meaning of our life.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try […]

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Three quarters of the American […]