What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well as of pop psychology, intensity of personal belief is evidence of truth. It is considered very bad form… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is about as intellectually challenging as the average self-help book. (Like personal development literature, mass market… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers? — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't see a direct conflict between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities, because I don't perceive of communities as having… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as having a particular role. I'm lucky enough to be able to make my living essentially by expressing my… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There's a way in which all of these grazers at the spirituality buffet are performing a service, because you could argue that grazing leads… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral legal process… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
