Quote by Kurt Andersen Download Open image ““In other words, America was founded by a nutty religious cult.”” — Kurt Andersen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“America was always a religious country, and it remains the most religious of industrialized Western democracies. America derived its strength from religion, not secularism.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“And it was Texas that turned out to be especially congenial to the development of Christian fundamentalism in America.” — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
“Colonial America was not settled out of a search for religious liberty, but it stumbled onto that principle just in time.” — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
“Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We made up our own religions and pretended they came from outside us.” — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“The myth of America’s religious founding thus provided an explanation for those who needed to sanctify the past before they could go forward with… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
“America had, I believe, a divine founding. Call it American exceptionalism if you like. But that makes America all the more vulnerable to God's… — Fleming Rutledge Copy Share Image
America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The haphazard unfolding of religious toleration described above occurred chiefly by default (and in New York, to enhance a commercial environment), not to promote… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the 1960s the… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“If I think it’s true, no matter why or how I think it’s true, then it’s true, and nobody can tell me otherwise.” — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Libertarianism used to have a robust left wing as well. Both disliked government. Both were driven by a fantastically nostalgic conviction that a country… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“But what other place on Earth has been more congenial to believers and promoters of mad dreams and schemes of so many kinds? California… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“The antisharia movement lobbied states to pass statutes and constitutional amendments banning the use of sharia in their courts and legal systems, a fantasy… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
I'm comparing Americans to international peers in terms of GDP, educational system - the sort of benchmarks we used to designate a so-called developed… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular. — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“The early advocates of universal literacy and a free press…did not foresee…the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“EVEN PAUL GOODMAN, beloved by young leftists in the 1960s, was flabbergasted by his students in 1969. “There was no knowledge,” he wrote, “only… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“IN ADDITION TO having become a distinctly Christian party, the GOP is more than ever America’s self-consciously white party. The nationalization of its Southern… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“Sixteen hundred years ago Saint Augustine instructed, basically, Don’t be stupid. “Shall we say, then,” he wrote about Genesis, “there was such a sense… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“After more than three decades and many hundreds of studies, the overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO foods are safe to eat. The National… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
