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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.

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.

Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

A lot of people have a belief system that is strictly based on religious dogma.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.