Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.
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Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power. -
I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed. -
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. -
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates. -
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
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