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At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In... read more

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The essential rationalism binding America's founding secularists to one another was memorably expressed by John Adams to Thomas Jefferson in an 1813 letter commenting on Britain's repeal of an old statue that made it a crime to deny the existence of the Holy Trinity.

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  1. Susan Jacoby (Author)
 

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