“As mainstream Christian church attendances fall farther still I predict that the Church of England, and finally the Roman Catholics, will be driven to conclude that they cannot even afford to make enemies of homosexuals, unmarried couples and family planners, and start welcoming them in too.”
“It has long been understood that popular religiosity tends to sink as education and income levels rise. It is now understood that additional factors have sped up secularization in most first world nations. An extensive economic safety net, including universal health care, has left most westerners so secure that few feel a need to seek the aid and protection of supernatural powers and they have abandoned the churches in droves.”
“Scoring a debating point against Richard Dawkins does not prove the existence of God.”
Anon.
“Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets. No religion offers anything comparable.”
“Wilberforce's principled stand against slavery tells us more about his individual conscience than it does about biblical ethics, which are self-contradictory and often contemptible.”
Walter Clark