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  • Raising Freethinkers is the companion book that is more practical advice on dealing with specific issues when raising children in a secular home.

    Roadkill | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • The ultimate consequences of empiricism were not drawn by the systematic moralists, but by other so-called Freethinkers who wrote more for the general public.

    Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

  • Not that I am in the least of opinion with those who hold religion to have been the invention of politicians, to keep the lower part of the world in awe by the fear of invisible powers; unless mankind were then very different from what it is now; for I look upon the mass or body of our people here in England to be as Freethinkers, that is to say, as staunch unbelievers, as any of the highest rank.

    An Argument against Abolishing Christianity 2003

  • Not that I am in the least of opinion with those who hold religion to have been the invention of politicians, to keep the lower part of the world in awe by the fear of invisible powers; unless mankind were then very different from what it is now; for I look upon the mass or body of our people here in England to be as Freethinkers, that is to say, as staunch unbelievers, as any of the highest rank.

    The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces Jonathan Swift 1706

  • The Socialists of Germany all consider that the parties nearest related to theirs are the Radical or small capitalist parties, formerly called the "Freethinkers" and the "People's" parties

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • Atheism Would you believe that someone has published a list of famous "Freethinkers," and that the names "Johnny Carson" and "Bill Gates" are on it?

    Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories 2009

  • This group of so-called "Freethinkers" is nothing but the reverse side of that worn out

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Susan McCarthy, Comment Is Free 2009

  • It closed as follows: ” “There remains a great stumblingblock in the minds of many Freethinkers which is certain to prejudice them against Theosophy, and which offers to opponents a cheap subject for sarcasm ” the assertion that there exist other living beings than the men and animals found on our own globe.

    An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893

  • Similar groups of non-theists at about 20 U.S. military bases around the world are watching the outcome at Fort Bragg in hopes it will lead to their recognition, too, said Jason Torpy, president of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers.

    Army atheists seek 'faith' privileges 2011

  • Earlier this year, coded biblical references were discovered on thousands of high-power military rifle sights -- the inscriptions were scratched off after complaints from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers.

    Roy Speckhardt: The Resolution For 'In God We Trust' Roy Speckhardt 2011

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