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January 28, 2009
“The United States is a generically religious society. That is, in the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.”
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Writer Susan Sontag (born January 28, 1933, died 2004),"Literature is Freedom," acceptance speech for Peace Prize of German Book Trade awarded October 2003. Excerpt reprinted in Los Angeles Times Book Review (Oct. 26, 2003)
John Baskerville On this date in 1706, John Baskerville was born. The famous English printer, who produced the "Baskerville Bible" in 1763, was a freethinker. He instructed that he wished to be buried in unconsecrated ground, and composed his own freethinking epitaph. By interesting coincidence, the typeface used by Freethought Today, the publication of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is Baskerville Times. D. 1775. “Emancipate thy mind from the idle fears of Superstition and the wicked arts of Priesthood.”
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John Baskerville's self-composed tombstone inscription (1775)
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