Because people have asked..... — I am pro-military, did Army and Navy time, 1969-1977 — Civilian stuff with the military, 1979-present — I am pro 2nd Amend — I shoot regularly, load my own, NRA member for over 25yrs — I have usually voted Republican, but will vote for the best candidate, regardless of party, or not vote — I am over 50, post-college educated — I believe in one God, but I do not adhere to any organized religious belief — Depending on where I am, I occasionally go to Mass, Mosques, and Temples because I find the atmospheres pleasant and conducive to thinking — I do not believe there is a hell, and I hope there is an afterlife.

Some quotes from Mark Twain -
“All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.”
“Before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced, had passed away.”
“Statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for; the universal brotherhood of man—with his mouth.”

Other quotes -
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.” - Thomas Jefferson

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.” - George Washington, Treaty of Tripoli (1797)

“Religious experiences which are as real as life to some, may be incomprehensible to others.” - William O. Douglas

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” - Sinclair Lewis

“Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.” - Barry Goldwater