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…

- 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…

- Wendy Kaminer

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…

- Wendy Kaminer

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…

- 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 of self-expression.

- Wendy Kaminer

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

- Wendy Kaminer

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

- Wendy Kaminer

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

- Wendy Kaminer

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

- Wendy Kaminer