challenging religious privilege in public life

James A. Haught

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Tolstoy rejected supernatural Christianity

"The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life."

Robert Ingersoll’s freethinking brilliance was timeless

Perhaps no other American had a career like that of the amazing Robert Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic" born 190 years ago this month.

Blasphemy through the ages

In medieval times, the Holy Inquisition tortured and burned thousands for heresy and blasphemy.

The Enlightenment is still winning

Around three centuries ago, major thinkers began advocating democracy. Their period became known as The Enlightenment.

Thomas Jefferson was a skeptic

Thomas Jefferson was a skeptic who wrote many attacks on the clergy and was denounced as a "howling atheist" and an "enemy of religion".

John Adams scorned Christianity

Virtually none of America's most prominent Founders was a traditional Christian, most were Deists. One was John Adams.

There’s little honesty in theology

Theologians are in the business of declaring "truths" that nobody possibly can prove. They do so without evidence.

Was Shakespeare a skeptic?

George Bernard Shaw, a playwright almost as revered as Shakespeare, observed: "Shakespeare had no conscious religion."

2000 Years of Disbelief: Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

Einstein's opposition to supernaturalism is clear in his personal writing and in testimony of his intimate friends.

Logic Disproves God

Any intelligent person can prove that the Christian god doesn’t exist. All it takes is some obvious logic.

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