Sherwin Wine Quotes

• There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our Puritan past. It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of Americans and threatens our freedom.

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  Religious, Father, Past

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• Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying.

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  Laughing, Praying

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• If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

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  Running, Religion, Ceo

  Rabbi Sherwin Wine" by Lawrence Joffe, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.

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  Religious, Children, Years

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• You have to fight gravity.

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  Fighting, Gravity

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