I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

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

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

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.

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

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