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
A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American… — 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
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
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a… — 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
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
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
