There tends to be more division and exclusion in the way religion is brought to bear on politics these days.

I was resistant to it at first. But you couldn't ignore the message because of how it was framed and how it was being lived.

I realized I couldn't keep thinking the way I'd been thinking.

So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

We try to bring interesting, topical things to the public. But we don't get into politics or religion.

Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind—politics and religion. He doesn’t want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.