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In CoPhi today, another quick pass at the heroes of late antiquity/middle ages. Augustine was a Manichean before his conversion to Christianity and its omnipotent Deity and supernaturally-rooted disdain for human reason.
Ockham’s “razor” was a simple tool. Too simple, for a complex world? Giordano Bruno could have used it, though.
Burning Man is another fantasy stage for adults of all ages, who go to the desert and dress up as unicorns, birds, mermaids, geishas etc., and “step through the looking glass – that is, through the LED screen – to inhabit Azeroth or Tatooine” or wherever. Kids ‘R’ Us for sure, innocently and harmlessly enough for most perhaps, but Michael Jackson was another story.
The last well-known secularist crusader in the tradition of Paine and Ingersoll was Clarence Darrow, who died in 1938. “The Atheist Mother” Vashti McCollum was no crusader, just a humanist whose wish to raise her children free of doctrinal duress was “somehow” perceived as hostile and threatening by the conformist majority.
Lady Chatterley dealt a decisive blow to the Comstock law in 1959, inflaming the enemies of secularism and leading Billy Graham to write in 1954 that communists worship the Devil. That was a bit abrasive. Would it have been worse, if he were a woman?
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