Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.