“Deists of Jefferson’s generation fought tax support for religious institutions at a time when the only influential American religious sects were Protestant. Their nineteenth-century successors were unquestionably appalled when the Roman Catholic Church became the first large religious denomination to… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
