Just Pretend

Just Pretend PDF Author: Dan Barker
Publisher: Freedom from Religion Fndtn
ISBN: 9780318424958
Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 71

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Just Pretend

Just Pretend PDF Author: Dan Barker
Publisher: Freedom from Religion Fndtn
ISBN: 9780318424958
Category : Atheism
Languages : en
Pages : 71

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400 Years of Freethought

400 Years of Freethought PDF Author: Samuel Porter Putnam
Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 1178

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Freethought and Freedom

Freethought and Freedom PDF Author: George H. Smith
Publisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 1944424385
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Liberty of conscience and freedom of thought are twin, core components of modern life in societies across the world. The ability to pursue one?s vision of the right and the good, coupled with liberty to pursue individual reason and enlightenment, helped produce so much of modern life that we may be apt to forget that libertarian philosophy was not dictated by Nature. Freethought and Freedom surveys the long history of religious and intellectual liberty, exploring their key ideas along the way.

Organized Freethought

Organized Freethought PDF Author: Shirley A. Mullen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135162847X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England’s working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence of a Victorian religion of atheism. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century religious and social history.

Black Freethinkers

Black Freethinkers PDF Author: Christopher Cameron
Publisher: Critical Insurgencies
ISBN: 9780810140790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Black Freethinkers is the first study to offer a comprehensive historical treatment of African American freethought (including atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism) from the nineteenth century to the present.

The Ethic of Freethought

The Ethic of Freethought PDF Author: Karl Pearson
Publisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The Myth of American Religious Freedom

The Myth of American Religious Freedom PDF Author: David Sehat
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199793115
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.

Free Thought and Official Propaganda

Free Thought and Official Propaganda PDF Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher:
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Category : Free enterprise
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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A Grammar of Freethought

A Grammar of Freethought PDF Author: Chapman Cohen
Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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A Short History of Freethought

A Short History of Freethought PDF Author: John Mackinnon Robertson
Publisher:
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Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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