Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Humanity's Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889

Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891· 2 chapters· 5,191 words

As an unbeliever, I ask leave to plead that humanity has been real gainer from scepticism, and that the gradual and growing rejection of Christianity--like the rejection of the faiths which preceded it--has in fact added, and will add, to man's happiness and well being. I main...

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1. Part 1

As an unbeliever, I ask leave to plead that humanity has been real gainer from scepticism, and that the gradual and growing rejection of Christianity--like the rejection of the...

2. Part 2

Surely it is clear gain to humanity that unbelief has sprung up against the divine right of kings, that men no longer believe that the monarch is "God's anointed" or that "the p...