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 the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict. - Susan Jacoby
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.
- 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 that this an integral part of who I am. And… - 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 that this an integral part of who I am. And…
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
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…
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponent… - Susan Jacoby
Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponent…
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
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.
hope is not a plan of action. - Susan Jacoby
hope is not a plan of action.
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
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…
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
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'…
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
God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasion…
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