A friend asks: Who are we to judge another’s beliefs? I answered: There is no way to “respect” the beliefs of others and still have freedom of speech. We are not obligated to surrender our ability to tell right from…
Monthly Archives: February 2013
February 26: François Arago (1786)
It was on this date, February 26, 1786, that French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician François Arago was born François Jean Dominique Arago at Estagel, a small village near Perpignan, in the département of Pyrénées-Orientales. Brought up before and maturing…
Posted in Science
This Week in Freethought History (February 17-23)
Read about Giordano Bruno, the bullies in the Church of Scientology, Svante Arrhenius, Robert Altman, Jimmy Swaggart, August Bebel, W.E.B Du Bois and more …
Reply to Jakub
These two comments were submitted to FreethoughtAlmanac.com. My reply follows— FROM: Jakub (2/16/13) “O Mr Ronald. Article abort Berlioz catch My attention, but after moment I realized that this article in fact say more about his Author then about Berlioz…
Posted in Uncategorized
February 22: August Bebel (1840)
It was on this date, February 22, 1840, that German Marxist politician, writer, and orator August Bebel was born Ferdinand August Bebel in Deutz, Germany, now a part of Cologne. A product of the working class himself, with Wilhelm Liebknecht…
Posted in Social Reformer, Writer
This Week in Freethought History (February 10-16)
Read about Charles Lamb, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Teller, Susan B. Anthony, Natalie Angier and more …
This Week in Freethought History (February 3-9)
Read about the Four Chaplains and God’s Love, Georg Brandes, the Great Aquarian Conjunction, Christopher Marlowe, Charles Dickens, Henry Walter Bates, the first public strip-tease and more …
On 50
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong [souls] stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Posted in Rant
This Week in Freethought History (January 27-February 2)
Read about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sarah McLachlan, Thomas Paine, Walter Savage Landor, Franz Schubert, Langston Hughes, Ayn Rand and more …
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