2000 Years of Disbelief
- Authors
- Haugt, James A.
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books
- Tags
- biographies & memoirs , atheism , religion , historical , religion & spirituality , world , history , religious studies & reference , philosophy , religious studies , biography , general , religious
- Date
- 1996-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 3.63 MB
- Lang
- en
Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. Churchmen generally contend that great figures in history, such as America's founders, were conventional believers. That isn't true, and this insightful, witty collection sets the record straight! This collection chronicles dozens of famous people such as [Robert Ingersoll](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/156323.Robert_Ingersoll "Robert Ingersoll"), [Baron d’Holbach](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1228712.Baron_d_Holbach "Baron d’Holbach"), [Thomas Paine](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57639.Thomas_Paine "Thomas Paine"), [Isaac Asimov](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16667.Isaac_Asimov "Isaac Asimov"), [W.E.B. DuBois](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10710.W_E_B__DuBois "W.E.B. DuBois"), [Thomas Edison](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3091287.Thomas_Edison "Thomas Edison"), [Albert Einstein](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9810.Albert_Einstein "Albert Einstein"), [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/12080.Ralph_Waldo_Emerson "Ralph Waldo Emerson"), [Benjamin Franklin](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/289513.Benjamin_Franklin "Benjamin Franklin"), [Omar Khayyám](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2742325.Omar_Khayy_m "Omar Khayyám"), [Abraham Lincoln](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/229.Abraham_Lincoln "Abraham Lincoln"), [James Madison](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/63859.James_Madison "James Madison"), [John Stuart Mill](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57651.John_Stuart_Mill "John Stuart Mill"), [Gene Roddenberry](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43942.Gene_Roddenberry "Gene Roddenberry"), [Margaret Sanger](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/264856.Margaret_Sanger "Margaret Sanger"), [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5217.George_Bernard_Shaw "George Bernard Shaw"), [Elizabeth Cady Stanton](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/120585.Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton "Elizabeth Cady Stanton"), and [Voltaire](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5754446.Voltaire "Voltaire"), with many quotes that reveal their rejection of the supernatural.