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A 4 page paper which compares Wendy Kaminer’s “The Last Taboo” with the first chapter of Stephen Carter’s book “The Culture of Disbelief.” No additional sources cited.
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world. In Wendy Kaminers "The Last Taboo" and the first chapter of Stephen Carters book "The Culture of Disbelief" we are provided with two similar, yet different, perspectives relating to
religion in the United States today. The following paper first examines each work separately, discussing the main argument and thesis of the author, and then discusses the similarities and differences
in the two, arguing that Carters work is a more convincing argument. The Last Taboo In Kaminers work she first offers up personal experiences as a child, when she
learned what it was like to fear an omnipotent being. From there she moves on to discussing how religion in our society is something that the majority of the people
possess, but also something that the majority of the people remain silent about. At one point she indicates that, "Educated professionals tend to be embarrassed by belief," but interestingly enough
this is a paraphrase of the opinions presented by Carter in his "The Culture of Disbeleif" (Kaminer). Kaminer does present her own opinion, however, in arguing the following: "Indeed, whats
striking about American intellectuals today, liberal and conservative alike, is not their Voltairean skepticism but their deference to belief and their utter failure to criticize, much less satirize, Americas romance
with God" (Kaminer). Kaminers argument is fairly clean, but her primary point is perhaps somewhat vague and illusive. She makes many different points, but essentially does not appear to
be arguing for anarchy, as a portion of her title would indicate. If we look at her closing lines we may see a sense of what she is getting at:
"Think, to cite one example, of people whose unreasoned faith in the moral degeneracy of homosexuals leads them to accept unquestioningly the claim that gay teachers are likely to molest
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