Freethinkers: A History of American SecularismAn authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination" (The New York Times) |
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... Protestants renewed their objections to the exis- tence of a state church . The battle was joined in 1784 when Patrick Henry introduced a bill in the Virginia General Assembly that would have assessed taxes on all citizens for the ...
... Protestants , including small Quaker and Lutheran sects as well as the more numerous Bap- tists and Presbyterians , who had long resented the domination of the Episcopalians . Although evangelicals did not share Madison's and Jef ...
... Protestants and Catholics but not to Jews , free- thinkers , and deists . The possibility of equal rights for non ... Protestantism was specifically recognized as the state - established religion . But the framers of the Constitution ...
... Protestantism . These delegates were virtually unanimous in their support of the ban on religious tests for public offices . The second explicit secularist constitutional provision is of course the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights ...
... Protestants . The stance of evangelical Protestants , who feared that any government endorsement of religion might lead to government con- trol of religion , was most forcefully advocated in Massachusetts by the Reverend Isaac Backus ...
Contents
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The Belief and Unbelief of Abraham Lincoln | 104 |
Evolution and Its Discontents | 124 |
The Great Agnostic and the Golden Age of Freethought | 149 |
Dawn of the Culture Wars | 186 |
Atheists Reds Darwinists | 227 |
Onward Christian Soldiers | 268 |
The Best Years of Our Lives | 292 |
Culture Wars Redux | 317 |
Reason Embattled | 348 |
Robert Ingersolls Eulogy for Walt Whitman | 367 |
Selected Bibliography | 389 |
Acknowledgments | 399 |