I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.

I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.