I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.

A just system must generate its own support.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.