Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Determined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.