Wendy Kaminer

Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by…

— Wendy Kaminer

Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.

— Wendy Kaminer

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form…

— Wendy Kaminer

The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves,…

— Wendy Kaminer

If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to…

— Wendy Kaminer

Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but…

— Wendy Kaminer

In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as…

— Wendy Kaminer

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was,…

— Wendy Kaminer

Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular…

— Wendy Kaminer

I don't care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do however care deeply about…

— Wendy Kaminer

What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well…

— Wendy Kaminer

The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent…

— Wendy Kaminer

Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.

— Wendy Kaminer

Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for…

— Wendy Kaminer

When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.

— Wendy Kaminer