Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.
Richard John NeuhausProgress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
Richard John NeuhausDetermined secularists view these as residual inconsistencies that they have not yet go around to extirpating and that may not be worth bothering about... Form the secularist perspective it may be that the essential battles have been won and excessive zeal in pressing a final mopping-up operation might only excited further public hostility.
Richard John NeuhausOne must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.
Richard John NeuhausReligion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Richard John NeuhausAll my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.
Richard John NeuhausConsumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.
Richard John Neuhaus