It's Dangerous To Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies - Hardcover

"Eberstadt, in a neat series of chapters, contrasts the self-descriptions of progressives and secularists with their actions. They believe themselves champions of civil rights, while circumscribing the freedoms of fellow citizens...They make blacklists and call themselves open-minded."--Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week

"Eberstadt is a superb analyst. Her hypothesis-carefully demonstrated and ringing true-is that secular progressivism is not just a political ideology; it is a competing faith, a religion."--Luma Simms, Public Discourse

"Eberstadt's argument is hard-hitting and convincing."--First Things

"Eberstadt's description of the bewildered faithful, caught up in rapid social changes, is deeply affecting...One hopes liberals and progressives will accept her call...particularly in institutions of higher learning whose leaders speak ceaselessly of their commitment to diversity."--The American Conservative

I can't think of a better way to start than for Christians to read this book and equip themselves to stand up for the future of faith in this country, with fortitude and hope.--Catholic World Report

"[Eberstadt] offers scores of cases, all from recent years, in which Christians have been denied freedoms and protections that would be afforded as a matter of course to any other group. The arguments given for this suppression are transparently ludicrous or paranoid. Christians have real reason to be afraid."--Rachel Lu, The Federalist

"Eberstadt asks the progressive victors in the culture wars whether their vision of public life demands that traditional religious belief and believers be expunged. This book marks a turning point-whether it's one toward a gracious return to liberal tolerance or into a different and darker period, we shall see."--Tod Lindberg, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of The Political Teachings of Jesus and The Heroic Heart

"A searing indictment of the hypocrisy and duplicity of many secularists who have abandoned the old rules of mutual respect. Instead they exhibit rank bigotry in the name of 'tolerance' and conduct themselves, especially on sexual matters, more as an evangelical sect than as a movement of reason and dialogue."--Michael Novak, author of The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and the recipient of the 1994 Templeton Prize

"Mary Eberstadt is one of America's most vibrant and compelling thinkers. This book takes on the question of religious liberty, and does so without mincing words. The book will equip you to know what's happening to America's first freedom and will inspire you to act."--Russell Moore, president, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention

"Mary Eberstadt is one of the most perceptive and thoughtful observers of contemporary social maladies. She appeals to the good sense that has brought us through religious wars in the past. We must understand, she pleads, that 'the enemies of religious freedom are the enemies of liberalism itself.'"--John Garvey, President of The Catholic University of America