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.

My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort of stay comfortably in a religion, I had to do a lot of thinking and reading before I realized that I was an atheist.

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 don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.

There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.