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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

I used to be an atheist, but I've chilled out a bit on that.

I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.

I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.