And I say to mankind, Be not curious about God, … I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least …
Monthly Archives: May 2011
May 31: Walt Whitman
Tagged with: Franklin Evans; or The Inebriate, Leaves of Grass, Religion of Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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Posted in Uncategorized
May 30: Mikhail Bakunin
“People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.”
Tagged with: Aleksandr Herzen, God and State, Karl Marx, Religion of Mikhail Bakunin
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Social Reformer
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Social Reformer
May 29: The Red Virgin
One of the leaders of the Paris Commune, Michel saw that the Commune severed all state connection to the Catholic Church, nationalized all church property, and secularized the schools.
Tagged with: la Vierge Rouge, Paris Commune, Red Virgin, Religion of Louise Michel
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, History, Social Reformer
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, History, Social Reformer
May 28: Corliss Lamont
Supernatural entities simply do not exist… [O]ur cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God… As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.
May 27: Harlan Ellison
Look, I’m an atheist. People say to me, do you believe in God? No, I don’t believe in God… I have to have some proof of something.
Tagged with: Glass Teat, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Religion of Harlan Ellison, Science Fiction
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Writer
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Writer
May 26: Alse Young Executed for Witchcraft
Alse Young (1647): First American Execution for Witchcraft It was on this date, May 26, 1647, that the first witch was hanged in America for the crime of witchcraft. Alse Young was arrested, tried for this capital offense in Windsor,…
Tagged with: Alse Young, Connecticut, Cotton Mather, Warfare of Science with Theology, witchcraft, Wonders of the Invisible World
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
May 25: Pope Gregory VII
The end of his life was the beginning the most morally loose period in the history of Europe – now mythologized as the “Age of Chivalry.”
Tagged with: Age of Chivalry, Cannossa, Henry IV, Hildebrand, Lateran Synod, papal election, Patarene, Patarine, Pope Gregory VII
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
Posted in History, Religion, Theology
May 25: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson rejected the idea of personal immortality and repudiated even the amorphous Unitarian God, believing instead in a vaguely Pantheistic Over-Soul.
Tagged with: Pantheistic Over-Soul, Religion of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalism
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Poet, Writer
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Poet, Writer
May 25: Ian McKellen
“God, if She exists, isn’t really a part of my life.”
May 23: Dante Alighieri
This “great Catholic poet” – you might as well call him the only great Catholic poet – rejected or ignored much of the theology of his church.
Tagged with: Boniface VIII, Catholic Encyclopedia, Divina Commedia, Divine Comedy, Durante Alighieri, Inferno, Paradiso, Purgatorio, Religion of Dante Alighieri
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Poet, Writer
Posted in Famous Freethinkers, Poet, Writer
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