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)
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
- Chapter 1
Preface
04:01 - Chapter 2
Luscious Piety
10:38 - Chapter 3
The Jewish Sabbath
15:18 - Chapter 4
Professor Stokes on Immortality
16:41 - Chapter 5
Paul Bert
15:49 - Chapter 6
Bradlaugh's Ghost
09:04 - Chapter 7
Christ and Brotherhood
22:06 - Chapter 8
The Sons of God
06:58 - Chapter 9
Melchizedek
08:19 - Chapter 10
S'w'elp me God
07:50 - Chapter 11
Infidel Homes
27:40 - Chapter 12
Are Atheists Cruel?
09:07 - Chapter 13
Are Atheists Wicked?
10:52 - Chapter 14
Rain Doctors
08:09 - Chapter 15
Pious Puerilities
08:36 - Chapter 16
''Thus Saith the Lord''
07:09 - Chapter 17
Believe or Be Damned
09:07 - Chapter 18
Christian Charity
06:30 - Chapter 19
Religion and Money
08:49 - Chapter 20
Clotted Bosh
10:08 - Chapter 21
Lord Bacon on Atheism
23:16 - Chapter 22
Christianity and Slavery
31:25 - Chapter 23
Christ up to Date
20:04 - Chapter 24
Secularism and Christianity
16:18 - Chapter 25
Altar and Throne
08:07 - Chapter 26
Martin Luther
08:48 - Chapter 27
The Praise of Folly
32:07 - Chapter 28
Happy in Hell
13:06 - Chapter 29
The Act of God
06:35 - Chapter 30
Keir Hardy on Christ
10:08 - Chapter 31
Blessed be ye Poor
10:23 - Chapter 32
Converted Infidels
12:38 - Chapter 33
Mrs. Booth's Ghost
08:21 - Chapter 34
Talmage on the Bible
11:06 - Chapter 35
Mrs. Besant on Death and After
29:41 - Chapter 36
The Poets and Liberal Theology
17:10 - Chapter 37
Christianity and Labor
07:25 - Chapter 38
An Easter Egg for Christians
13:25 - Chapter 39
Duelling
08:41 - Chapter 40
Down Among the Dead Men
07:52 - Chapter 41
Smirching a Hero
17:46 - Chapter 42
Kit Marlowe and Jesus Christ
09:05 - Chapter 43
Jehovah the Ripper
11:06 - Chapter 44
The Parson's Living Wage
14:03 - Chapter 45
Did Bradlaugh Backslide?
12:00 - Chapter 46
Frederic Harrison on Atheism
09:08 - Chapter 47
Save the Bible!
09:24 - Chapter 48
Forgive and Forget
08:16 - Chapter 49
The Star of Bethlehem
07:55 - Chapter 50
The Great Ghosts
08:50 - Chapter 51
Atheism and the French Revolution
10:11 - Chapter 52
Pigottism
09:19 - Chapter 53
Jesus at the Derby
08:34 - Chapter 54
Atheist Murderers
13:40 - Chapter 55
A Religion for Eunuchs
19:28 - Chapter 56
Rose-Water Religion
45:39