"That so many manage to accommodate belief systems……" — Susan Jacoby
"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 religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain."
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Susan Jacoby
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13 Quotes by Susan Jacoby
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Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that…
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Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by…
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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy…
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This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has…
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We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a…
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If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the…
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The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
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Too many Americans have twisted the sensible right to pursue happiness into the delusion that we are entitled to a…
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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches…
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Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening…
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At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
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Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of…
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In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains…
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed…
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I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
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While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it…
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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments,…
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In addition to the well-known benefits of health and well-being derived from exercise, there are other unique advantages to being…
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