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An Apology for Atheism, by Charles Southwell
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Title: An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
Author: Charles Southwell
Release Date: August 11, 2005 [EBook #16512]
Language: English
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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 'schoolmaste