Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.

I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

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

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.