I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And…

- Susan Jacoby

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

- Susan Jacoby

More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, mu…

- Susan Jacoby

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

- Susan Jacoby

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 more.

- Susan Jacoby

hope is not a plan of action.

- 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…

- Susan Jacoby

God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasion…

- Susan Jacoby

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 don'…

- Susan Jacoby