Freethought

William “Bill” Gates is a philanthropist, businessman, software developer, and most notably an entrepreneur who founded one of the largest company in the world; Microsoft and subsequently became the richest man in the world. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington and was born into a Christian family. At a young age Bill Gates showed keen interest and talent in the computer world, and later pursued it as his career in his life. From his skills, he and partner Paul Allen built

Lance Armstrong, Morgan Freeman, John Lennon, and Brad Pitt. What do they all have in common? They're all Atheists. Many religious followers think that Atheism is a disgrace and that Atheists should be punished. The American Atheist Society defines Atheism as being a lack of belief in the religious system. But many people think that Atheism is a disbelief in a god or gods. (“History of American Atheists”). Atheists are being attacked and treated unfairly because of their lack of belief in the religious

Free to Disagree A primary objective of identifying common ground between Nietzsche and Mill’s ideas of freedom is to define freedom adequately so that it can be used as a basis for comparison. Each theorist’s opinion on what freedom is, however, appears to be fairly distinct. Mill might describe freedom as the absence of constraints to original, individual thought, whereas Nietzsche conceptualizes freedom as continual self-overcoming to evolve a more actualized self. Freedom for Nietzsche is overcoming

In this paper, I will argue, new atheism could be identified as a non-religious fundamentalist group with some definitions while with over definitions of fundamentalism making new atheism, not a fundamentalist group. Intro New Atheism is becoming more popular every year with more people openly joining the movement. The term new atheist refers to the activist atheist organizations that are having recent growth around the world. As well as people who argue that religion is dangerous and needs

“A man is on trial! A man who wishes to think!” In a small town drenched in summer heat, a young man named Bert Cates is put on trial for questioning the bible's teachings, and introducing the school children to Darwinism. Though the genesis of this play is the 1925 monkey trial, the setting is classified as not too long ago. This being because the right to think is always on trial in one way or another. The right to think is important because it allows society to prosper, sciences and philosophies

existed before and they have never been everlasting. It can fall in many ways having to do with the people as a whole. In a world like this, there could be a rebellion that has not been brainwashed, which can affect everything. A culture full of freethought will overrun a hateful society. “It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure” (Orwell 269).

In Praha to Prague: Czechs in an Oklahoma Farm Town written by Dr. Philip D. Smith, gives an account of the history of Prague, Oklahoma, how the Czechs immigrated into Prague, Oklahoma, and how the Czechs managed to retain their own ethnic identity while being in the minority in the United States (4). During this time of history, many immigrants went to the United States to discover for a new start for their families, and the Czechs were no exception. According to this book, two groups of the Czechs

In an article it's been stated “[l]iterature can train and exercise our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours” (Freethought forum 1). A student of literature can comprehend that one person's problem doesn't have to be their own as others can feel empathy. This connects back to my point of how it helps an individual grow to provide the knowledge they gained to member

civilization. It is truly unique and its influence can be found in all new cultures, culturally, politically and economically. Culturally, “the West” has been characterized by its political thought, widespread employment of rational argument favouring freethought and

This extract from Montaigne’s ‘Des Cannibales’ is found near the beginning of the essay. It is pivotal in setting the precedent for the rest of the essay since it establishes how Montaigne came to his viewpoints on the Tupinambá since they are different to those held by many of his contemporaries. When Montaigne wrote, people were only beginning to learn about other areas of the world. People on the whole had not travelled and so held ethnocentric views regarding culture. They failed to understand