I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why … - Susan Jacoby

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There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Susan Jacoby

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.

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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.

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It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.

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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.

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

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It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers. . . I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

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There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second. . . . We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

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