Freethought Almanac

Lighting a candle in toxic air.
2013-03-30
This Week in Freethought History (March 24-30)

Read about Harry Houdini, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s expulsion from Oxford, Richard Dawkins, “Typhoid Mary’s” final quarantine, Russian writer Maxim Gorky, Ludwig Büchner’s “Bible of Materialism,” church opposition to anesthesia and more …

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2013-03-16
This Week in Freethought History (March 10-16)

Read about the lie of Arnold Toynbee, erotic film star Nina Hartley, Turkish secularizer Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, astronomer Percival Lowell, Nobel laureate Albert Einstein, the French Headscarf Ban, James Madison and more …

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2013-03-13
Waiting for Papa: Watching for the Smoke (and Mirrors)

One of the biggest misconceptions about the papacy is that the center of authority in the Church has always resided in the Bishop of Rome. Until the fall of the Western Empire in the 5th Century, EVERY assertion of Roman supremacy was repudiated. After that, resistance was futile.

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2013-03-09
This Week in Freethought History (March 3-9)

Read about Ira Glass, Penn Jillette, the brutal Pope Eugene IV, Gabriel García Márquez, André Morellet the Encyclopedist, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Mirabeau the revolutionist and more …

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2013-02-23
This Week in Freethought History (February 17-23)

Read about Giordano Bruno, the bullies in the Church of Scientology, Svante Arrhenius, Robert Altman, Jimmy Swaggart, August Bebel, W.E.B Du Bois and more …

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2013-02-16
This Week in Freethought History (February 10-16)

Read about Charles Lamb, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Teller, Susan B. Anthony, Natalie Angier and more …

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2013-02-09
This Week in Freethought History (February 3-9)

Read about the Four Chaplains and God’s Love, Georg Brandes, the Great Aquarian Conjunction, Christopher Marlowe, Charles Dickens, Henry Walter Bates, the first public strip-tease and more …

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2013-02-02
This Week in Freethought History (January 27-February 2)

Read about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sarah McLachlan, Thomas Paine, Walter Savage Landor, Franz Schubert, Langston Hughes, Ayn Rand and more …

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2013-01-26
The Week in Freethought History (January 20-26)

Read about the Piltdown Man hoax exposed, feminist and freethinker Helen Hamilton Gardener, Lord Byron, French novelist Stendhal, Frederick the Great, Virginia Woolf, what escaped the Index of Prohibited Books and more …

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2013-01-19
The Week in Freethought History (January 13-19)

Read about feminist Ernestine Rose, Witch persecuters recanting, priest-turned-atheist Jean Meslier, Thomas Jefferson’s “Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom,” Benjamin Franklin, Baron de Montesquieu, Jacob Bronowski, Edgar Allan Poe and more …

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Said Madison, “Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator… can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.”



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