I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.
From Richard Dawkins
There are people who try to get atheists to form a sort of atheist church and have atheist community singsongs and things. I don't see the need for that, but if people want to do it, why shouldn't they?
If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated.
The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.
A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.
You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions.
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.
I don't think that it's up to government to dictate what people should wear.
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