It's Dangerous To Believe

Religious belief-and religious believers-are being aggressively pushed out of public life by a concerted secular campaign. As Eberstadt reveals, this is disastrous for the nation. People of faith are afraid. They are afraid that they will lose their jobs, their communities, and their basic freedoms, just due to their beliefs. They fear that their religious universities and colleges will capitulate to the demands of secularism, or retreat, and be stripped to the bone. They fear that their children will be ostracized, shunned, and unable to keep or pass on their beliefs, because the costs of professing traditional Christianity, Judaism, or any other faith will have become socially or financially prohibitive. They fear that they won't be able to maintain operations that help the sick and feed the hungry. Is this what we want America to be? In It's Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt takes an increasingly unpopular position-that believers do not deserve to be discriminated against. With this book, she hopes to spur all men and women of good will who know in their hearts that today's intolerance towards the Christians among us has already gone too far. It is meant to spark second thoughts in the minds of other well meaning people who have themselves become inquisitors. It is not until secular Americans live up to their own standards of tolerance that we can build the inclusive society America was meant to be.