Average Quote by Barack Obama

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

— Stanley Hauerwas

Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

— Saul Bellow

I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my…

— John Rawls

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after…

— Bill Maher

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that…

— Trey Parker

The religiosity of Americans I don't think has ever been determined by how much money they make.

— Charles Murray

If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as…

— Barack Obama

“Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't…

— Doris Betts

If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a world view…

— Richard Rohr

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or…

— William Bennett

You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.

— Jeff Fortenberry

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely…

— Stephen J. Dubner