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As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.

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Wendy Kaminer
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 28
Journalist
Lawyer
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Success
Thought
Undiluted
Camille
Marketable
Absolutism
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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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The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to conspiracy theories than it is to productive political debate.
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In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. 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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The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.
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In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.
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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, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.
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If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought.
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The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.
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When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.
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Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.
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Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.
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Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.
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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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The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.
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Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
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There are only two states of being in the world of codependency - recovery and denial.
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We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?
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Jargon seems to be the place where the right brain and the left brain meet.
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For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.
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