Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot. — 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
