Susan Jacoby

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

That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility…

— Susan Jacoby

If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion…

— Susan Jacoby

“Ingersoll’s spotless reputation as a husband and father was a source of considerable frustration to those who would have loved to catch…

— Susan Jacoby

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

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.

— Susan Jacoby

I'd be the last person in the world to deny that there are many people for whom faith is - can be…

— Susan Jacoby

Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents…

— Susan Jacoby

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded…

— Susan Jacoby

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

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well…

— Susan Jacoby

I wanted to know how much of conversion was forced - that is, forced in the sense that the Inquisition forced people…

— Susan Jacoby

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism…

— Susan Jacoby

I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what…

— Susan Jacoby