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An Apology for Atheism by Charles Southwell (1814-1860)
First published anonymously in 1846
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AN APOLOGY FOR ATHEISM:
ADDRESSED TO
RELIGIOUS INVESTIGATORS OF EVERY DENOMINATION
BY ONE OF ITS APOSTLES.
"Not one of you reflects, that you ought
know your Gods before you worship them."
LONDON:
J. WATSON, 5, PAUL'S ALLEY, PATERNOSTER ROW.
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.
1846
AN APOLOGY FOR ATHEISM
It would be absurd to doubt that religion has an important bearing on
all the relations and conditions of life. The connexion between
religions faith and political practice is, in truth, far closer than is
generally thought. Public opinion has not ripened into a knowledge that
religious error is the intangible but real substratum of all political
injustice. Though the 'schoolmaster' has done much, there still remain
and hold some away among us, many honest and energetic assertors of 'the
rights of man,' who have to learn that a people in the fetters of
superstition, can never achieve political freedom.
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