Quotes from Wendy Kaminer

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

The press and the public like certainty and affirmation of popular biases. But real science thrives on the capacity for doubt.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.