"From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence."

"Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith."

"I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages."

"Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program."

"Reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."

"It is a steadfast truth that reason is the torch that illuminates the dark corridors of superstition — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us."