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| | Paine's 'The Age of Reason' took America by storm in 1795 when both volumes were published. Paine's critique of traditional Christianity angered America's religious leaders. He ridiculed the Bible and mocked Christian beliefs like Christ's divinity, the Resurrection, and the Virgin Mary, to name a few. Instead, he argued that deism was a better and more authentic worship of God. He famously wrote that "The creation is the Bible of the deist." Sadly, Paine's deism was an idea before its time.
| | historyforatheists.com
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| | Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers - An Emotional History of Doubt (William Collins, 2019) 262 pp. We unbelievers are often mentioned in passing in histories of religion, but there are only a few works of history that focus on those of us who reject religion or who never held religious beliefs at all. This one is by a scholar who is a Christian, but one who strives to give a balanced and nuanced view of how various modern Western strains of unbelief... Read More Read More
| | theimaginativeconservative.org
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| | By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by a "culture of repudiation," keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. (essay by Sir Roger Scruton)
| | profmattstrassler.com
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| Last year, in a series of posts, I gave you a tour of quantum field theory, telling you some of what weunderstand and some of what we don't. I still haven't told you the role that string theory plays inquantum field theory today, but I am going to give you a brief tour of string...