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1 " The pride in intellect, or rather in the supremacy of the mind, is not restricted to those engaged in intellectual pursuits but is a regular occurrence in all neurosis. "
― Karen Horney , Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
2 " In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual pursuits and concerns over doctrine. Essentially, sentimentality represents an abandonment of theology and critical introspection in popular evangelicalism. Instead of crafting intellectual responses to the challenges to evangelicalism, popular evangelicals appeal to the power of feeling as an authority to counteract science and criticism of the Bible. They offer their audiences the opportunity to FEEL that evangelicalism is right rather than asking them to accept the veracity of doctrinal positions of evangelicalism. "
― , Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism
3 " Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. "
