Alse Young (1647): First American Execution for Witchcraft It was on this date, May 26, 1647, that the first witch was hanged in America for the crime of witchcraft. Alse Young was arrested, tried for this capital offense in Windsor, Connecticut, and hanged at Meeting House Square in Hartford, on what is now the site […]

The end of his life was the beginning the most morally loose period in the history of Europe – now mythologized as the "Age of Chivalry."

The Catholic Church has been hypocritical in its position on divorce and adultery.

As with every other social reform, it was only after the Freethinkers had built the train and started it on the track that the churches felt it safe to climb aboard.

A husband could beat his wife, or sell her, take all her property and her children. Down to the 19th century, women were denied the vote because the law specified only men.

It was some consolation to the survivors of the largest pogrom in human history that a Jewish state was formed on this date in 1948.

It would seem to the less credulous that, if God were really opposed to the new calendar, He might have taken more direct action against it.

"The fatwa by Imam Khomeini in regards to the apostate Salman Rushdie will be in effect forever."

That "artificial" stuff humans created to make life longer and better for women and men is all that stands against devastation by overpopulation.

“The establishment of a new religion, whose ministers superceded the exercise of reason,” Gibbon wrote, supplanted Athenian wisdom and, “resolved every question by an article of faith, and condemned the infidel or skeptic to eternal flames."