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

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

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

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

It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or mora….

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 b….

The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to….

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

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….

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 to a kind….

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

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 Am….

One of the reasons I'm drawn to civil libertarianism as opposed to communitarianism is that I don't worry so much about the rights of the majority; a….

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?.

Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring….

Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also sa….

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 righ….

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

Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it..

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

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