Wendy Kaminer
Wendy Kaminer
Wendy Kamineris an American lawyer and writer. She has written several books on contemporary social issues, including A Fearful Freedom: Women's Flight From Equality, about the conflict between egalitarian and protectionist feminism; I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions, about the self-help movement; and Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety...
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I find it quite appalling that the ACLU is actively supporting this. I think this is precisely the kind of legislation we should be opposing, not supporting.
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To rationalize their lies, people -- and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose -- are apt to regard their private interests and desires as just.
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A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
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He's taking a single word from the realm of science -- quantum -- and using it in ways that are meaningless, ... It's an attempt to use science to prove your faith.
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Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.
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It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.
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Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.
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Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.
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Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.
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Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.
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Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.
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Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.
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There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.
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The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.