Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
I have no beliefs of a religious kind.
The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.