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Nancy Pearcey Quotes

American - Author | 1952 -

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

Attitude Suffering World Matter Even

Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.

Mind World Thought Meaning Feelings

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

Giving Doubt Anything Benefit Many

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

People Indigenous People Indigenous

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

Marriage Support Society Demand Both

The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

Marriage Freedom Defense Obsolete

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

Work Knowledge People Ideas Data

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

Tea Energy American Political Party

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

Intellectual Does Alienated Require

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

Education Public Education Classroom

Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

Science Facts You Will More Being

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Science Challenge Teach Classroom

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