Title: Superb history of a much maligned group
Product review: Much of the religious freedom churchgoing U.S. citizens take for grantedwould not exist were it not for the struggle of freethinkers - atheists,agnostics, deists, rationalists, humanists - to make and keep the U.S. government secular.The evangelical Christians and Catholics who now work to dissolve the wallsbetween church and state find it convenient to forget how the barrier theydespise once protected them from rich and politically powerful sects whenthey were few in number, poor, and unwanted. Even more, they forget howforbearers of the modern freethinkers they condemn so easily and hate somuch, men such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Thomas Paine,struggled and sometimes suffered to promote and defend the radical notion ofa government neutral in religion which respects everyone by not elevatingone belief above another.If you are a non-religious American, this gift to the world is yourheritage. It is one to be proud of.
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