Doe Quote by Phillip E. Johnson

“Religion, then, is far from "useless." It humanizes violence; it protects man from his own violence by taking it out of his hands, transforming…

— René Girard

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

— Lori Lipman Brown

I have always felt that many Christians, deeply sincere Christians, support the idea of separation of State and Church and the secularist in that…

— Ibn Warraq

“freedom of religion has both private and public dimensions. It is the freedom to pray, to worship, to commune with one’s fellows of like…

— Timothy Shah

Our humanist attitude should therefore throughout be to stress what we all have in common with each other and relegate quarrelsome religion to the…

— Hermann Bondi

All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought...it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society. Religion…

— Akbar Ganji

The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right…

— Thomas Paine

If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K.…

— Richard Dawkins

Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion…

— Rachel Maddow

The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.

— Stephen V Monsma

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right.…

— David Herbert Donald

In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.

— Michel Hazanavicius