Mar 24
It was on this date, March 24, 1834, that English poet, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist William Morris was born in Walthamstow. As a youth he was an avid reader and at Oxford he was a zealous student of theology, ecclesiastical history medieval poetry and art. From there he was expected to join the Roman …
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Nov 26
Charles M. Schulz (1922) It was on this date, November 26, 1922, that the creator of Snoopy, Lucy, Charlie Brown and the other characters of the “Peanuts” comics world, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, was born in St. Paul Minnesota. There is little dispute that Schulz, or “Sparky,” as his friends called him, started out his …
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Aug 30
Jacques-Louis David (1748) On this date, August 30, 1748, that the most important European painter of the French Revolutionary period, from 1785-1815, Jacques-Louis David, was born into the Parisian merchant class. David’s father must have been both prideful and foolish, because he died in a duel when his son was 10. Educated at the Académie …
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Jul 14
James McNeill Whistler (1833) It was on this date, July 14, 1833, that American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. His father was an Army Major and Whistler himself was educated at West Point, from which he was dismissed. His Arrangement in Grey and Black (1871), better known as Whistler’s Mother, …
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Jun 08
About religion, Wright said, “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature… And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
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Apr 26
Delacroix supported the French Revolution against the Catholic monarchy and was an ardent rationalist.
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Apr 23
Turner “did not profess to be a member of any visible Church,” and he “had no religious hope to cheer him” when he died.
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Apr 15
This deathbed conversion, by so critical a thinker as Leonardo, who would have nothing to lose by professing piety all his life, can only mean that during his prime years he was a secret freethinker.
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Mar 06
The Catholic Encyclopedia, while praising his morality, industry and artistic talent, can find no words to describe his religious faith.
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Dec 21
“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
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