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

Feminists who want to censor what they regard as harmful pornography have essentially the same motivation as other would-be censors: They want to use the power of the state to accomplish what they have been unable to achieve in the marketplace of ideas and images. The impulse to censor places no faith in the possibilities of democratic persuasion.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and I would be the first to say that.

hope is not a plan of action.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.