But not for Noah!
G.W. Foote lived in the mid 1800's and died in 1915. Even though this was modern times, he still, received persecution for his freethinking. Below is a cartoon that appeared in his Freethinker magazine in 1882. It was one of several used against him that led to his prosecution for Blasphemy.
Thank goodness, for the few human beings who are willing to risk physical harm to deliver, as best they can through science, an objective reality by dissecting the fairy stories of antiquity. To the GOP, Tea Party and right-wing religious, your days of believing Myths to be accurate accounts of history, are numbered. Live with it!
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G.W. FOOTE QUOTES
“Biology was opposed tooth and nail as the worst of all infidelity. It exposed Genesis and put Moses out of court. It destroyed all special creation, showed man’s kinship with other forms of life, reduced Adam and Eve to myths, and exploded the doctrine of the Fall. Darwin was for years treated as Antichrist, and Huxley as the great beast. All that is being changed, thanks to the sceptical spirit. Darwin’s corpse is buried in Westminster Abbey, but his ideas are undermining all the churches and crumbling them into dust.”
“Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity. Faith means negligence, serfdom, insincerity and deception. The man who never doubts never thinks. He is like a straw in the wind or a waif on the sea. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism. The stupidity of the people, says Whitman, is always inviting the insolence of power.”