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I'm no atheist - I'm lazy. I really do like hassle-free Sunday mornings. I have a problem with organized religion, so I've simply opted out. Live and let live, I figure.

You can't have a belief system on Sunday and not live it the other six days.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.

Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.