America Quote by Edwin Gaustad

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

— Bill Bradley

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us…

— Eric Hoffer

Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is.

— Thurman Arnold

“Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us unwilling to criticize ideas that are increasingly maladaptive and patently ridiculous.”

— Sam Harris

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

— Learned Hand

With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

Most Americans instinctively recoil from the claim that there is an antireligious bias running through the underlying assumptions with which their society approaches church-state…

— Stephen V Monsma

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion…

— Natalie Angier