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I grew up in an Orthodox home in New York, where I had a right-wing, xenophobic, anti-intellectual, fire-and-brimstone, free-thought free, shtetl-mentality, substandard education.
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I have met atheists who are far more religious than most of my churchgoing friends -- zealots who join free-thought communities, work hard to make converts, and celebrate Darwin Day with a fervor exceeding most Jews at Purim.
Benyamin Cohen: Questions for Stephen Prothero, Author of God Is Not One 2010
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There is no "non-partisan" free-thought industry think tank and/or incubator to consider new models, new approaches, and enhance audience appeal.
Ted Hope: 38 Ways the Film Industry Is Failing Today Ted Hope 2010
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I have met atheists who are far more religious than most of my churchgoing friends -- zealots who join free-thought communities, work hard to make converts, and celebrate Darwin Day with a fervor exceeding most Jews at Purim.
Benyamin Cohen: Questions for Stephen Prothero, Author of God Is Not One 2010
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One of these was lead by a controversial free-thought journalist named Moses Harman who not only denounced all forms of government and religion, but added a new dimension in reform by advocating that women be freed from sexual slavery by abolishing the institution of marriage.
More on Minow and Harvard Law School’s treatment of Stephanie Grace 2010
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There is no "non-partisan" free-thought industry think tank and/or incubator to consider new models, new approaches, and enhance audience appeal.
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Billboards carrying religious messages may be effective, according to PhillyCoR, the Philadelphia Coalition of Reason, an alliance of humanist, free-thought and atheist groups.
RNB QuickLinks: Mormons or CIA agents? Jesus in a sink, ethical dogs, the hijood and a black mailbox 2008
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Rose abandoned her Jewish religious practices, but she responded with immediacy when the editor of the Boston Investigator, a free-thought journal for which she frequently wrote, attacked the Jewish people.
Ernestine Rose. 2009
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TO expect another entity with its own self-serving agenda to instill "free-thought" is an oxymoron.
What is the intent of Education? Steven Barnes 2009
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While the nobility of free-thought is extolled, in practice, the pupil's mind is tightly constrained by the ideological strictures framing the curriculum.
What is the intent of Education? Steven Barnes 2009
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