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.

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.

Though decrying the secrecy of Freemasonry, the Catholic Church apparently has no problem with its own secret organizations, such as Opus Dei.

The betterment of humankind was not a high priority of Christian Europe, or of the Muslim East. It was never considered that humanity could be improved.

"Apart from moral conduct," Kant wrote, "all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly."