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It's dangerous to believe : religious freedom and its enemies / Mary Eberstadt.

by Eberstadt, Mary.

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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]

Religious discrimination.

Religious tolerance.

Freedom of religion.

Christianity -- Public opinion.

Christianity -- United States.

Fear -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

9780062454010 (hc.)

xxix, 158 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Among the believers; or, why I wrote this book -- The roots of the new intolerance -- Anatomy of a secularist witch hunt -- Acclaiming "diversity" versus hounding the heretics -- Civil rights talk, McCarthyite muscle -- Inquisitors versus good works -- What is to be done; or, how to end a witch hunt.

Turns a spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against traditional religious belief and believers, who are being aggressively pushed out of public life by the concerted efforts of militant secularists. Mary Eberstadt documents how people of faith - especially Christians who adhere to traditional religious beliefs - face widespread discrimination in today's increasingly secular society. Eberstadt details how recent laws, court decisions, and intimidation on campuses and elsewhere threaten believers who fear losing their jobs, their communities, and their basic freedoms solely because of their convictions. They fear that their religious universities and colleges will capitulate to aggressive secularist demands. They fear that they and their families will be ostracized or will have to lose their religion because of mounting social and financial penalties for believing. They fear they won’t be able to maintain charitable operations that help the sick and feed the hungry. Religious freedom is a fundamental right, enshrined in the First Amendment. Eberstadt calls attention to this growing bigotry and seeks to open the minds of secular liberals whose otherwise good intentions are transforming them into modern inquisitors. Mary Eberstadt is an essayist, novelist, and author of How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution; and Home-Alone America.

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