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His successor, Emma Park, was announced on The Freethinker website on 27 January 2022. In June 2022 Barry Duke explained that although The Freethinker was due to move from the Patheos website to OnlySky, the board of G. W. Foote & Co. Ltd. decided to keep its own dedicated website and to terminate his editorship. [4] He was succeeded by Emma Park.
Gomperz resigned his professorship at Vienna in order to devote all his energy to his magnum opus Griechische Denker ("Greek Thinkers"), which first appeared in 1893. [2] He died in Baden bei Wien. [3]
In January 2010, IAF sent a letter to Iowa legislators, protesting the practice of official prayer at the beginning of each day of the 2010 legislative session. [19] The group maintained that the practice is a violation of the separation of church and state, as well as an unnecessary burden on the Iowa taxpayers, as the clergy members conducting the prayer are reimbursed for the prayer and the ...
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011): British-American columnist, polemicist, and free-thought activist. Author of New York Times best seller God is not Great - How Religion Poisons Everything. George Holyoake (1817–1906): English secularist. [32] Holyoake was the last person in England to be imprisoned (in 1842) for being an atheist. [33]
Its aim was to provide a public meeting-ground and forum for materialist and atheist thinkers in Germany. Renamed German Freethinkers Association (Deutscher Freidenker-Verband) in 1930, the organization was subsequently prohibited by the Nazi regime in 1933. At the time, the association had some 500,000 members.
Rupert Clendon Lodge (1886–1961) was an Anglo-Canadian philosopher, "the most widely read of all philosophers in Canada". [1]Lodge was born in England, but spent most of his academic career at the University of Manitoba, where he taught from 1920 to 1947.
Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief. [1]A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, [2] and should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation.
Big Think is a multimedia web portal founded in 2007 by Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins. [1] [2] The site publishes interviews and round table discussions with experts from a wide range of fields. Victoria Brown is the acting CEO and Peter Hopkins is the acting president of the company.