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Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) was one of the more prominent freethinkers of his time. He was known as the "Great Agnostic". Ingersoll, a lawyer, an orator and a Civil War veteran, is famous for his skeptical approaches to popular religious beliefs. He would speak in public about orthodox views and would often poke fun at them.
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]
Taking great personal pride from the association, [9] he became a strong public advocate for the movement. [10] Michael Atiyah: British mathematician. [11] Margaret Atwood: Canadian author. Named Humanist of the Year in 1987 by the American Humanist Association, and is a Humanist Laureate in the International Academy of Humanism. [2]
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.
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.
Deist. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consensus of his time. John Toland: 1670–1722: Irish: Philosopher and satirist. Josiah Tucker: 1713–1799: Welsh: Welsh churchman, known as an economist and political writer.
This is a list of Stoic philosophers, ordered (roughly) by date.[Note: Some other philosophers like Socrates and Cynics were the big influencers in Stoicism and are founded quoted by the stoics] The criteria for inclusion in this list are fairly mild.
In 1928, Lewis incorporated the Freethinkers Society, renaming it "The Freethinkers of America" and becoming its president. [7] [unreliable source?In March 1930, at a luncheon honoring Philip J. Peabody, it was announced the society would move to legally force the board of education to eliminate the reading of the Bible in public schools.