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It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

America is an unusually religious nation.

Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

Those who belong to megachurches display as high a level of personal commitment as do those who attend small congregations.

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

By the seventh century, Christianity probably was far stronger and more sophisticated in North Africa and Asia than in Europe.

[Some men are shortsighted, so] going to prison or going to hell just doesn't matter to these men.

A whole lot of Americans have never met a Mormon.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable
the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.