It's hard to talk about them (politics and religion) in a way that doesn't anger people, and I often make people angry, ... I'm trying to do it as inoffensively as possible, and it shouldn't be offensive. It should be what we talk about.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

It's the same thing with religion (as politics) -- you don't give opinions on that. People can go and say anything about Bush, just not in a public school.

No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

To me, there is no room for the cynical politics of manufactured anger and false conviction.