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.

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

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

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

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

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