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The founding fathers/mothers of Modern Atheism/Liberalism.
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RE: The founding fathers/mothers of Modern Atheism/Liberalism.
There were no founding fathers for not believing in gods just like there were no founding fathers for not believing in leprechauns.

As science progressed, people saw that gods and leprechauns were nonsense, and thus people grew up.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: The founding fathers/mothers of Modern Atheism/Liberalism. - by Fake Messiah - July 25, 2023 at 9:48 am

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