Any Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

— Timothy Keller

“Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to…

— Jim C. Hines

I've always seen our faith as an instrument to embrace our fundamental equality, before God and before our laws, and not as a license…

— Pia Wurtzbach

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons…

— Sam Harris

People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In…

— Edward Kennedy

People must have the right to freely practice their religion. It is written in our founding documents and at the core of our values.…

— Deborah K. Ross

“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should not be cowed by exaggerated sensitivity to people's religious beliefs and fail to speak vigorously and pointedly…

— S.T. Joshi

“One of the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.…

— H.L. Mencken

“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.”

— Timothy Brook

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

— Ed Buckner

There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn.…

— Zac Goldsmith

Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion,…

— Jack Germond