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Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.