“I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.” IfsTryingBelievePersonsSchoolUniversePrayerAtheismDesignWake UpIntelligentCatholicPositive AtheismHospitalsNot InterestedSecularIntelligent DesignMergersPrayer In School Author:Katha Pollitt
“Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?” NeedsLittlesKidsSchoolHateSidesChristPrayerAtheismRight NowLateJewPositive AtheismBoredomRegulationOffenseAssociatesForbiddenSegregationAurasBlandCondescensionInfuriatingEcumenism Book:Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture Source: Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
“My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.” ThinkingWorldShouldWarSchoolDaughterHigh SchoolWindowTradeBlockPatriotismMy DaughterFlagsVengeanceWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterAmerican FlagJingoism Book:Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time Source: Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
