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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 02 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Matthew Boston. |
| Summary |
From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence-especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws allowing conscientious objection to war, did nonbelief enter debates about religious liberty. Still, today every one of the fifty states has God written into its constitution, with eight requiring a belief in God for holding public office. God is everywhere in American public life: on our currency, in the Pledge of Allegiance, and in the national motto. R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick explore both God's omnipresence and the dramatic rise in nonbelievers that has led to an "atheist awakening" intent on holding the country to its secular principles. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Atheists -- Political activity -- United States.
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Religion and state -- United States.
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Religion and politics -- United States.
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Kramnick, Isaac, author.
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Boston, Matthew, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684413775 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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168441377X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12193841 |
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