“[T]he mere existence of others who have radically different beliefs about the nature ofreality poses an explicit challenge to the claims of absolute truth made on behalf of one’s ownpoint of view, thus undermining the anxiety-buffering capacity of that world view.”
“Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other?”
“You have to remain critically vigilant.Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views it as obvious.”
“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.”
“To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world.”
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”