So far, I've read great chapters on the revolutionary period, Thomas Paine (who was more radical in his beliefs and in the manner of his life than I'd ever imagined), as well as Abraham Lincoln. The arguments about secularism aren't always convincing on every point, but the research she's done is great - it fills in many gaps in my (admittedly paltry) knowledge of these chapters in American history. I'm only about a third of the way through it, but so far I'm enjoying it, and learning a lot. I'm finally reading Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers, a book that was scheduled to come out in March, but which for some reason I didn't find in the bookstore until yesterday. ( Robert Ingersoll, American secularist quoted in Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers) It depends upon realities, upon demonstrations and its end and aim is to make this world better every day-to do away with poverty and crime, and to cover the world with happy and contented homes. Secularism has no 'castles in Spain.' It has no glorified fog. Secularism teaches us to be just here and now.
Secularism teaches us to be good here and now.
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