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born 1966 United States

Jacques Berlinerblau (born July 6, 1966) is Professor and Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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Let us never underestimate the motivational force that the belief in Scripture’s divine proximity has upon exegetes. They open the book having already invested their faith in the proposition that it is underwritten by God.

The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005)

[The "New Atheists"] fail to recognize that mocking religious people in public is entirely inimical to the goals they wish to achieve.

Today's secularists too often have very little accurate knowledge about religion, and even less desire to learn. This is problematic insofar as their sense of self is constructed in opposition to religion. Above all, the secularist is not a Jew, is not a Christian, not a Muslim, and so on. But is it intellectually responsible to define one's identity against something that one does not understand?

The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jacques Berlinerblau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.