Showing posts with label Ingersoll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ingersoll. Show all posts

Sunday, January 7, 2007

Green Freethinker?

The most obvious link between being Green and freethought is the most prominent freethinker of the nineteenth century.

His reputation is now enjoying a long overdue resurgence thanks in large part to Susan Jacob's Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (a great book that I highly recommend).

Politically he was very progressive even by today's standards at a time when that was apparently possible within the GOP Republicans. His name of course was Robert GREEN Ingersoll.


Other possibilities for Green freethinkers were:

Thomas Hill Green - philosopher, political radical, and temperance campaigner
Ruth Hurmence Green - author of The Born Again Skeptic's Guide to the Bible