Susan Jacoby Quotes

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• Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no…
• 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…
• 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 so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and…
• This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in…
• We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral…
• If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face…
• The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
• Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a guarantee of happiness. If we…
• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and…
• Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
• At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
• Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

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