Character Quote by James Luther Adams

“Liberal politics are incompatible with . . . a [religious] community, unless it is further believed that the individual members of the community have…

— Mustafa Akyol

“In the Judeo-Christian tradition, we carry forward the basic insight our fundamental relationship to the world is one of love. Christians say that “God…

— Paul W. Kahn

“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.”

— Marcus J. Borg

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude…

— David Mamet

Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities…

— Eboo Patel

The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their…

— Pope Paul VI

... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning…

— Norman Lear

Liberalism is part of a religious disorder that demands a belief that life is controllable.

— Ann Coulter

“This book aims, in part, to help reverse the lamentable public retreat of religious liberals in recent decades. Yet, religious liberalism on the whole…

— Paul B. Rasor

“There is also the wider fact that politics more generally operates for some people as a secular religion—especially politics dictated by a worldview professing…

— Mary Eberstadt

“The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

— Stanley Hauerwas