People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I wanted to know how much of conversion was forced - that is, forced in the sense that the Inquisition forced people… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I don't deny that religion is very healthful to a lot of people. And as long as they don't try to convert… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls,… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns, which generated… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser,… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share
