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Education. Ashland University ( BA) South Texas College of Law ( LLB) Madalyn Murray O'Hair ( née Mays; April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) [1] was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state. In 1963, she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray ...
Abraham Lincoln grew up in a highly religious Baptist family. He never joined any Church, and was a skeptic as a young man and sometimes ridiculed revivalists. He frequently referred to God and had a deep knowledge of the Bible, often quoting it. Lincoln attended Protestant church services with his wife and children.
t. e. The religious views of Thomas Jefferson diverged widely from the traditional Christianity of his era. Throughout his life, Jefferson was intensely interested in theology, religious studies, and morality. [1] [2] Jefferson was most comfortable with Deism, rational religion, theistic rationalism, and Unitarianism. [3]
Godless. (Barker book) Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists is a book which was written by Dan Barker in 2008, [1] in which he describes his deconversion from being a preacher to becoming an atheist. [2] : 106. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides the story of Barker's ...
Jean Meslier ( French: [melje]; also Mellier; 15 June 1664 [1] – 17 June 1729) was a French Catholic priest ( abbé) who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism. Described by the author as his "testament" to his parishioners, the text criticizes and denounces all ...
Festivals. "Holiday". The Flying Spaghetti Monster(FSM) is the deityof the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism, a parodicnew religious movementthat promotes a light-hearted view of religion.[3] It originated in opposition to the teaching of intelligent designin public schoolsin the United States.
Charles Darwin's views on religion have been the subject of much interest and dispute. His pivotal work in the development of modern biology and evolution theory played a prominent part in debates about religion and science at the time. In the early 20th century, his contributions became a focus of the creation–evolution controversy in the ...
Julian Baggini (1968–): British writer specialising in the philosophy of personal identity, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction. [10] Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876): Russian philosopher, writer and anarchist. [11] Roland Barthes (1915–1980): French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic and semiotician.