“An established Church and compulsory religious education in Britain has produced a fairly agnostic, faith-unfettered nation, while the separation of church and state in the US has produced a hundred million or so creationists. So much for legislating orthodoxy.”
“In Italy the Vatican's hostility to the liberal nation-state was so strong that the pope forbade the participation of Catholics in national political life altogether. The Church was understandably wary of pluralism's impact on its universalist aspirations – it could not abide being one option among many.”
Jan-Werner Müller
“Clerical culture attracts, cultivates, promotes and protects psychosexually immature men.”
“In the name of 'respecting' faith and 'celebrating' difference, we are moving to a liberal version of educational apartheid.”
“It's annoying when some try to tar atheists by comparing us to those who wore 'Gott Mit Uns' on their belts.”
Anon.