Robert Ingersoll's Some Mistakes Of Moses

[Lemonvariable72]

Must have been a tough gig in the US during the late 1800s.

Not really. That's more of a misrepresentation by lying jesus shits. It was basically an early 20th century phenomena.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_fundamentalism

Christian fundamentalism, also known as fundamentalist Christianity, or simply fundamentalism,[1] refers to a movement begun in the late 19th and early 20th century British and American Protestant denominations among evangelicals who reacted energetically against theological and cultural modernism.[2] Fundamentalists argued that 19th century modernist theologians had misinterpreted or rejected certain doctrines, especially biblical inerrancy, which evangelicals viewed as the fundamentals of Christian faith.[3] A few scholars regard Catholics who reject modern theology in favor of more traditional doctrines as fundamentalists.[4] Scholars debate how much the terms "evangelical" and "fundamentalist" are synonymous.

Fundamentalism is a movement manifested in various denominations with various theologies, rather than a single denomination or systematic theology. It became active in the 1910s after the release of the Fundamentals, a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic written by conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy. The movement became more organized in the 1920s within U.S. Protestant churches, especially Baptist and Presbyterian. Many such churches adopted a "fighting style" and combined Princeton theology with Dispensationalism.[2] Since 1930, many fundamentalist churches in North America and around the world have been represented by the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (renamed IFCA International in 1996), which holds to biblical inerrancy, the Virgin birth of Jesus, substitutionary atonement, the literal resurrection of Christ, and the Second Coming of Christ, among other doctrines.

This is the Wiki version - laziness on my part - but they list their sources and they are all out there to read.

I'm not as sure about that as there was a major surge in religion during the second awakening,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening
Now of course that, the chirstian nation stuff is bull and America was less Christian then, than they are now.

[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.

[MindForgedManacle]

Ingersoll was well like, actually. To the point where many wanted him to run for a high public office. Granted, his agnosticism prevented him from (I believe) legally attaining too high a position, which is why his supporters wanted him to hide his theological views while running for office.

[Lemonvariable72]

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.

I was under the impression that the 2nd great awakening gave rise to things like Mormons, Christian scientists, and Jehovah's witnesses. But that said, the abolitionist movement seems to have come from religious and non religious alike.

---

Ingersoll was well like, actually. To the point where many wanted him to run for a high public office. Granted, his agnosticism prevented him from (I believe) legally attaining too high a position, which is why his supporters wanted him to hide his theological views while running for office.

Aye, the americans could use a president like him now.