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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... Thomas Paine is from an engraving in Samuel P. Putman , Four Hundred Years of Freethought ( New York : Truth Seeker Company , 1984 ) , and is used , along with the picture of Robert Ingersoll's oration , courtesy of the Center for ...
A History of American Secularism Susan Jacoby. The most formidable weapon against errors of any kind is reason . -THOMAS PAINE , 1794 Contents Introduction 1 : Revolutionary Secularism 2 : The Age.
... Thomas Paine , the preeminent and much - admired literary propa- gandist of the Revolution , was the first American freethinker to be labeled an atheist , denigrated both before and after his death , and deprived of his proper place in ...
... Thomas Jefferson in an 1813 letter commenting on Britain's repeal of an old statute that made it a crime to deny the existence of the Holy Trinity . " We can never be so certain of any Prophecy , " Adams wrote , " or the fulfillment of ...
... Thomas Paine's celebrated arguments , in " Common Sense , " on behalf of independence . And although Madison was speaking from the perspective of an Enlightenment rationalist , his presentation of the pernicious possibilities for state ...
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 |