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Overview
In It’s Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents how people of faith—especially Christians who adhere to traditional religious beliefs—face widespread discrimination in today’s increasingly secular society. Eberstadt details how recent laws, court decisions, and intimidation on campuses and elsewhere threaten believers who fear losing their jobs, their communities, and their basic freedoms solely because of their convictions. They fear that their religious universities and colleges will capitulate to aggressive secularist demands. They fear that they and their families will be ostracized or will have to lose their religion because of mounting social and financial penalties for believing. They fear they won’t be able to maintain charitable operations that help the sick and feed the hungry.
Is this what we want for our country?
Religious freedom is a fundamental right, enshrined in the First Amendment. With It’s Dangerous to Believe Eberstadt calls attention to this growing bigotry and seeks to open the minds of secular liberals whose otherwise good intentions are transforming them into modern inquisitors. Not until these progressives live up to their own standards of tolerance and diversity, she reminds us, can we build the inclusive society America was meant to be.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780062454010 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 06/21/2016 |
Pages: | 192 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
A frequent contributor to magazines and journals including TIME, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and First Things, Mrs. Eberstadt (nee Tedeschi) has also served as an editor at The Public Interest, The National Interest, and Policy Review. She has been associated with various think tanks, including most recently the Hoover Institution and the Ethics and Public Policy Center. In 2011, she founded a literary organization called the Kirkpatrick Society that has mentored hundreds of writers.
During the Reagan administration, Mrs. Eberstadt spent two years as a speechwriter to Secretary of State George Shultz.. She graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University with a double major in philosophy and government. She lives in the Washington, DC area.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Among the Believers; or, Why I Wrote This Book ix
1 The Roots of the New Intolerance 1
2 Anatomy of a Secularist Witch Hunt 19
3 Acclaiming "Diversity" vs. Hounding the Heretics 44
4 Civil Rights Talk vs. McCarthyite Muscle 70
5 Inquisitors vs. Good Works 84
6 What Is to Be Done; or, How to End a Witch Hunt 101
Acknowledgments 127
Notes 129