Bans Quote by Benjamin Hart

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious…

— Sam Harris

In the name of religious freedom, relativists have banished religion from the public square. They say they have to destroy public displays of religion…

— Robert H. Knight

“We desire more public space for secularism, space that would recognize secularism as a legitimate moral stance. But we simultaneously desire more religious freedom…

— Janet Jakobsen

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all…

— Charles Colson

“Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect…

— Sam Harris

“Another way to describe the dilemma for religious faith is that pluralism creates social conditions in which God is no longer an inevitability. While…

— James Davison Hunter

On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs.…

— Barry Goldwater

Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers…

— Amanda Marcotte

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and…

— Mario Cuomo

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we…

— Jeffrey Tayler

Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there for. Squabbling…

— N. T. Wright

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

— Barack Obama