To Be Religious Is Not To Feel,

The Measure Of Our Rationality Determines The Degree Of Vividness With Which We Appreciate The Needs Of Other Life, The Extent To Which We Become Conscious Of The Real Character Of Our Own Motives And Impulses, The Ability To Harmonize Conflicting Impulses In Our Own Life And In Society, And The Capacity To Choose Adequate Means For Approved Ends.

There Must Be A Realm Of Truth Beyond Political Competence, That's Why There Must Be A Separation Of Churches, But If Religion Is Bad And A Bad Religion Is One That Gives An Ultimate Sanctity To Some Particular Cause.

Ultimately Freedom Is Necessary For A Society, Because Every Despotic Society - For Instance, The Russian Society - Lives On The Basis Of A Rather Implausible Dogma - The Marxist Dogma Of World Redemption Through Communism.

Man's Capacity For Justice Makes Democracy Possible, But Man's Inclination To Injustice Makes Democracy Necessary.

Religion Is So Frequently A Source Of Confusion In Political Life, And So Frequently Dangerous To Democracy, Precisely Because It Introduces Absolutes Into The Realm Of Relative Values.