If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we don't get exactly what we want, we assume someone must be violating our rights. We're no longer willing to write off some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck.

I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be a great sustaining force.

I wanted to know how much of conversion was forced - that is, forced in the sense that the Inquisition forced people to choose - forced Jews, let's say, and Muslims to choose conversion to Christianity or death. I wanted to see how much of conversion historically was forced in that way and how much of it was really a kind of persuasion.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

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.

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