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Susan Jacoby (/dʒəˈkoʊbi/; born June 4, 1945) is an American author. Her 2008 book about American anti-intellectualism, The Age of American Unreason, was a New York Times best seller. She is an atheist and a secularist. Jacoby graduated from Michigan State University in 1965. She lives in New York City and is program director of the New York branch of the Center for Inquiry.

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One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.

Aristocracy, Attractive, Interesting, Judaism, Roman

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

Believe, Children, Intellectually, Religious, Women

For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.

Catholic, Church, Confession, Particular, Think, Thinking

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

Believe, God, I Believe, I Believe In, Jews

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Disappear, History, Past, Rights, Weaknesses, Years

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

Catholic, Church, West, Recognize, State

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 discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives'. . . ?

Doled, Independent, Placing, Powerful, Struggle, Success

I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.

Moving, Prayer, Prayers, Providence, Substituted, Thinking

The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.

Adequate, Adult, Adults, Intelligent, Received, Sex

I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

Devoutly, Falling, Falling In Love, Imagine, Religious

I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.

Atheist, Country, Letters, Places, Religious, Shame

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

Birth, Conversation, Emotional, Heart, Life, Women

I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

Debate, Debates, Imagine, Things, Way, Would Be

I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.

Children, Life, People, Thinking, Together

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

Conflict, Religious, War, Wars

It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.

Believed, Falling In Love, Law, People, Rights, Unclean

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 always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

Believe, Media, Plus, Report, Straight, Two

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

Development, Education, Goal, Individual

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.

Believe, Children, Growing Up, Right, Say, Understand

If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in America, but also, the United States also has so many more immigrant groups which also tends to imply more religious diversity right away.

America, Government, Region, Religion, Religious, Siding

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