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… — 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… — 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… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Spirituality authors, who are generally forgiving of most human foibles ... take a hard line on intellectualism.... Skepticism they view with contempt,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
It's easy to sell good news like this, and the authors confidently rely on classic fallacious arguments. They argue by declaration, which… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as… — 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… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven. — 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
