“What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.” MayFormReligiousAcceptingDemocracyCriticalBelieverCeaseReasonableRestraintDiscourseModernityMaintenanceNon BelieverLiberal Democracy Author:Andrew Sullivan
“Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.” WorldGivingBookLawReligiousStrangeUniqueDetailsLimitationReasonableCustomsNotableAmerican WomanEeriePanache Author:Gilbert Sorrentino
“Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.” PeopleReligiousAtheismAtheistNoiseReasonableDogmaAgnosticThere Is No GodThere Being No GodReligious Dogma Author:Sam Harris
“Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.” PeopleRealSpiritCertainCoursesReligiousAgreeFoundationReasonableGuaranteesMutualDividedDogmaInquiryReligious FaithUnreasonableGuarantees ThatAntithesis Author:Sam Harris