There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
