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The Founding Fathers Were Not Christians

by Steven Morris, in Free Inquiry, Fall, 1995 The Christian right is trying to rewrite the history of the United States as part of its campaign to force its religion on others. They try to depict the founding fathers as pious Christians who wanted the United States to be a…

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radmin 04/11/2019 12/15/2020history 0

A Growing Number of Scholars Are Questioning the Historic Existence of Jesus

The doubt cast in this new article on Big Think, including Joseph Atwill‘s new documentary, actually isn’t new, although the numbers may be on the rise. Granted, Atwill has a new spin, but others have been pointing to an absence of historical evidence for some time. A few older books come…

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radmin 12/21/2018 12/23/2018history doubt, history, jesus, scholars 0

New Atheism, Worse Than You Think

About a decade ago proclaiming you were an atheist was risky, and can still be risky today depending on where it is proclaimed, but for the most part it no longer carries the stigma it used to have (in the United States anyway). Thanks in part to New Atheism putting…

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radmin 02/23/2018 02/23/2018arguments, history, politics 0
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