"The heathen write that the comet may arise from natural causes, but God creates not one that does not fortoken a sure calamity."

The 1933 World's Fair celebrated a century of progress, but the foundations of that progress were freethinking and religious skepticism.

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.

Godspell perpetuates the myth that Jesus was an apostle of peace, harmony and love.

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.

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.

“You have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.”