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Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

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Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

by George William Foote

English· 12:13:51· 56 chapters
The Freethinker, founded in 1881 was one of the first secular humanist magazines, and also one of the oldest surviving one, moving online only in 2014. It was founded by G. W. Foote, who was its chief editor for 34 years and stated the magazine's purpose as

The Freethinker is an anti-Christian organ, and must therefore be chiefly aggressive. It will wage relentless war against superstition in general, and against Christian superstition in particular. It will do its best to employ the resources of Science, Scholarship, Philosophy and Ethics against the claims of the Bible as a Divine Revelation; and it will not scruple to employ for the same purpose any weapons of ridicule or sarcasm that may be borrowed from the armoury of Common Sense.

Flowers of Freethought is a collection of Foote's articles for the Freethinker; this second series contains 55 of them. (Summary by Ava)

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface

    04:01
  2. Chapter 2

    Luscious Piety

    10:38
  3. Chapter 3

    The Jewish Sabbath

    15:18
  4. Chapter 4

    Professor Stokes on Immortality

    16:41
  5. Chapter 5

    Paul Bert

    15:49
  6. Chapter 6

    Bradlaugh's Ghost

    09:04
  7. Chapter 7

    Christ and Brotherhood

    22:06
  8. Chapter 8

    The Sons of God

    06:58
  9. Chapter 9

    Melchizedek

    08:19
  10. Chapter 10

    S'w'elp me God

    07:50
  11. Chapter 11

    Infidel Homes

    27:40
  12. Chapter 12

    Are Atheists Cruel?

    09:07
  13. Chapter 13

    Are Atheists Wicked?

    10:52
  14. Chapter 14

    Rain Doctors

    08:09
  15. Chapter 15

    Pious Puerilities

    08:36
  16. Chapter 16

    ''Thus Saith the Lord''

    07:09
  17. Chapter 17

    Believe or Be Damned

    09:07
  18. Chapter 18

    Christian Charity

    06:30
  19. Chapter 19

    Religion and Money

    08:49
  20. Chapter 20

    Clotted Bosh

    10:08
  21. Chapter 21

    Lord Bacon on Atheism

    23:16
  22. Chapter 22

    Christianity and Slavery

    31:25
  23. Chapter 23

    Christ up to Date

    20:04
  24. Chapter 24

    Secularism and Christianity

    16:18
  25. Chapter 25

    Altar and Throne

    08:07
  26. Chapter 26

    Martin Luther

    08:48
  27. Chapter 27

    The Praise of Folly

    32:07
  28. Chapter 28

    Happy in Hell

    13:06
  29. Chapter 29

    The Act of God

    06:35
  30. Chapter 30

    Keir Hardy on Christ

    10:08
  31. Chapter 31

    Blessed be ye Poor

    10:23
  32. Chapter 32

    Converted Infidels

    12:38
  33. Chapter 33

    Mrs. Booth's Ghost

    08:21
  34. Chapter 34

    Talmage on the Bible

    11:06
  35. Chapter 35

    Mrs. Besant on Death and After

    29:41
  36. Chapter 36

    The Poets and Liberal Theology

    17:10
  37. Chapter 37

    Christianity and Labor

    07:25
  38. Chapter 38

    An Easter Egg for Christians

    13:25
  39. Chapter 39

    Duelling

    08:41
  40. Chapter 40

    Down Among the Dead Men

    07:52
  41. Chapter 41

    Smirching a Hero

    17:46
  42. Chapter 42

    Kit Marlowe and Jesus Christ

    09:05
  43. Chapter 43

    Jehovah the Ripper

    11:06
  44. Chapter 44

    The Parson's Living Wage

    14:03
  45. Chapter 45

    Did Bradlaugh Backslide?

    12:00
  46. Chapter 46

    Frederic Harrison on Atheism

    09:08
  47. Chapter 47

    Save the Bible!

    09:24
  48. Chapter 48

    Forgive and Forget

    08:16
  49. Chapter 49

    The Star of Bethlehem

    07:55
  50. Chapter 50

    The Great Ghosts

    08:50
  51. Chapter 51

    Atheism and the French Revolution

    10:11
  52. Chapter 52

    Pigottism

    09:19
  53. Chapter 53

    Jesus at the Derby

    08:34
  54. Chapter 54

    Atheist Murderers

    13:40
  55. Chapter 55

    A Religion for Eunuchs

    19:28
  56. Chapter 56

    Rose-Water Religion

    45:39