Absence Quote by Susan Jacoby

“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 importance to our actions on earth.” quote by Susan Jacoby — Download Open 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, moral importance to our actions on earth.”

Susan Jacoby

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I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.

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