As far as I'm concerned, I don't care that people are religious, or go to church, whether for values, social life, mataphysical solace or other. It's their life.

The problem is when they start saying that you have to be part of their community, or else be labelled deviant or enemy or traitor or something similar. Proselytism comes there, but so do claims that people cannot really have ethics without faith, and so do claims to get involved in political life.

I'll say it again - I want the absolutes of religion outside of the life of the city, because they inevitably bring 'ends justify the means' principles.

The question is not whether we respect their choices. It's whether religious people respect ours, and do not treat us as inferior beings.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes