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title: "Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation"
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# Village Atheists: How America's Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation

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    ” His tragic accidental death was pounced on by the religious as being God’s punishment for his backsliding and free love ideas.
  

*by L***M on Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2017*

There was a time in America when a professed atheist could not serve on a jury, could not be a witness in a trial, could not hold elected office in some states. There was deep distrust and discrimination by the religious majority against those who would not swear oaths on Bibles, attend church, and whose moral and ethical credos were not founded on Biblical belief. As the author notes (p. 174), “It remained an open question whether the irreligious possessed the same civic capacities, rights, and protections as the godly.” The prejudices and strictures against this country’s Freethinkers and atheists are chronicled by Leigh Eric Schmidt by focusing on four courageous pioneers in the on-going struggle to keep superstition and government separate.In focusing on activists little known outside of non-believer (“infidel”) circles, Dr. Schmidt shines a spotlight on nineteenth century America’s cultural and philosophical extremes. There’s Samuel Porter Putnam, the pastor’s son and preacher who became a self-styled secular pilgrim, who occasionally slipped back and forth from preaching to the free-thought lecture circuit, eventually finding religion to be “a fungus growth upon humanity.” His tragic accidental death was pounced on by the religious as being God’s punishment for his backsliding and free love ideas.There’s Charles B. Reynolds, a one-time Seventh-day Adventist preacher who became a “Freethought Evangelist” and chief defendant in “Jersey’s Heresy Case” of 1887. And Elmina Drake Slenker, an ex-Quaker, who faced a jury and jail time for her outspoken views on religion, sex and marriage. Best of all, for all his quirks, is the chapter on self-taught cartoonist Watson Heston, whose anti-religious satires helped him rise from penury to prominence in free-thought circles. Over fifty of his intellectually provocative images are collected in “Village Atheists.” Those alone would make this a must-have book for those who shun superstition in favor of reality, but the book is also an even-handed portrait of America in the nineteenth century.

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*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017*

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    Well worth the time.
  

*by L***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016*

Concise, elegant, eloquent, engaging, realistic, well researched, and subtle. Raises excellent points concerning the history of, and tacitly questions the inherent flaws in, the country’s atheist movement (many of which have yet to be resolved, in my opinion). Highly recommended.

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