This gross oversimplification is full of error, failing to see how men pretend
irreligion as well as religion.
America is a religious nation, and our differences are not so much of religion vs.
irreligion as they are of divergent understandings of what our religious commitments require of us politically.
Not exact matches
Querulousness of mind tends in fact rather towards
irreligion; and it has played, so far
as I know, no part whatever in the construction of religious systems.
Since matters of faith can not and should not be legislated,
irreligion and idolatry
as well
as all forms of religion have a right to exist in democratic society.
I suspect that the atom will be the totem of
irreligion tomorrow,
as the amoeba was yesterday.
People are not attracted to
irreligion anywhere near
as much
as they are repulsed away from religion.
For them,
as for their Christian counterparts, religion and
irreligion are simple affairs: «Where there is no faith, there are no answers; where there is faith, there are no questions.»
Christianity —
as would be true of any religion and any
irreligion — is not necessary.
However, present times are quite different,
as irreligion seems greater than ever in most of the developed countries (also see atheism demographics in Europe).