The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

You need to identify the values that come out of that kind of belief system, because I don't see them. All the polls I look at say, for example, that adultery is committed as much in the Bible Belt as in any other part of the country. The same goes for abortion, child abuse, spouse abuse or murder.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.