RE: Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses
October 29, 2013 at 4:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2013 at 4:38 pm by Minimalist.)
That was the sort of stuff that Ingersoll was dealing with in the 1880's. Mencken, 50 years later, was dealing with the anti-evolution Monkey Trial variant of idiot xtian.
The 2d Great Awakening gave rise to the abolitionist movement which would be anathema to the religious right of today, for example. It also led to the women's suffrage movement and that's a bottle they've been trying to re-cork every since on the right.
The 2d Great Awakening gave rise to the abolitionist movement which would be anathema to the religious right of today, for example. It also led to the women's suffrage movement and that's a bottle they've been trying to re-cork every since on the right.
