“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.” ThinkingI CanWorryAtheismPositive AtheismCategoriesRelevantIrrelevantGod ExistsWhether God Exists Author:Wendy Kaminer
“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.” IfsThinkingIdeasLosesIssuesCapacitySubstitutesSentimentalityPersonalized Author:Wendy Kaminer
“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.” ThinkingPoliticalBeliefTheoryDebateProductiveConspiracySkepticismRationalityConspiracy TheoryPolitical DebatesMagical Thinking Author:Wendy Kaminer
“There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral legal process is practically utopian - because we all know that the more money you have, the more rights you can exercise in this society. But I don't think that you deal with income inequality by limiting the First Amendment rights of affluent people. I'd rather see people screw around with the tax code to redistribute wealth a little bit than screw around with the First Amendment.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalWealthExerciseTaxesInequalityCodeProgressiveFirst AmendmentFashionableUtopian Author:Wendy Kaminer
“The scarcest resource these days is reason. What's certainly striking about American culture today is the great hostility toward science and the decline of respect for rational scientific thinking. People seem to think that we are ruled by the scientific method and that we overvalue reason. If there was ever a period when we overvalued reason, I think that it was probably extremely brief. What I see now is a great deal of superstition, as much superstition as there has ever been. There are probably more people who believe in guardian angels than who understand the law of gravity.” PeopleThinkingBelieveReasonTodayCultureAngelRationalGuardianHostilityAmerican CultureGuardian Angel Author:Wendy Kaminer
“I don't think of myself as having a particular role. I'm lucky enough to be able to make my living essentially by expressing my opinions. But, you know, I think the world would manage quite well if I weren't doing it.” ThinkingWorldEnoughOpinionLuckyManage Author:Wendy Kaminer
“I do what I do because I have a compulsion to hold forth. I don't spend a lot of time, if any, thinking about the effect my work is going to have on the world. And I have an abiding mistrust of people who think that they're going to change the world. I think that people who think that they're going to change the world are the kind of people who put bombs on airplanes.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindChanging The WorldAirplaneMistrust Author:Wendy Kaminer
