American Babylon Quotes

“Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.”
― Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile

“Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.”
― Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile

“In other words, every party will be permitted to contend for their truths so long as they acknowledge that they are their truths, and not the truth. Each will be permitted to propagandize, each will have to propagandize if it is to hold its own, because it is acknowledged that there is no common ground for the alternative to propaganda, which is reasonable persuasion.”
― Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile