![]() ![]() Secularism teaches us to make the world a better place every day, to attempt to cover it with happy and contented homes,’” Ms. Secularism teaches us to be just, here and now. “‘Secularism teaches us to be good here and now. So she set out to revivalize this deeply American tradition in Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. She is a secularist, scholar and reporter proud of the vital role secularism has played in the American democratic experiment. ![]() ![]() Now the secular has faded from center stage with the rise of what Susan Jacoby calls the “religiously correct.” For too long, she says, secularists have allowed others to define - and demonize - them. Constitution “We, the People” and left “God” out. America’s Founding Fathers, many of them “Freethinkers,” deliberately created the world’s first secular nation when they began the U.S. “We, the People.” are revolutionary words, now under attack in the very country which famously gave those words to the world. ![]()
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