There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — 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… — 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… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Deists of Jefferson’s generation fought tax support for religious institutions at a time when the only influential American religious sects were Protestant.… — 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
More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in… — 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… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as… — 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
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
That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents… — 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
