Atheists & Agnostics

beam me up scottie

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14. Yes they are.

Thu Sep 14, 2017, 12:43 PM

Sep 2017

Atheist women risked being alienated by other women if they were honest about their non-belief. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was far ahead of her time and was punished for it.

Besides chronicling the history of the suffrage movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton took on the role religion played in the struggle for equal rights for women. She had long argued that the Bible and organized religion played in denying women their full rights. With her daughter, Harriet Stanton Blatch, she published a critique, The Woman's Bible, which was published in two volumes. The first volume appeared in 1895 and the second in 1898. This brought considerable protest not only from expected religious quarters but from many in the woman suffrage movement.

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Freethought of the Day [View all] beam me up scottie Sep 2017 OP

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. MLAA Sep 2017 #1

never knew of her Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #2

Too bad that motto does not work on the Deplorables and their "leaders". nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2017 #3

They deserve only ridicule. longship Sep 2017 #4

but ridicule and mockery are wrong! Voltaire2 Sep 2017 #6

Than try "vuvHa'chu'wI' to'" longship Sep 2017 #7

I love how she says she learned it in the car. Hassin Bin Sober Sep 2017 #9

Indeed. "In the car." longship Sep 2017 #10

Always learn something new on DU! progressoid Sep 2017 #5

Atheist women exist Lordquinton Sep 2017 #8

Atheist women have always been an especially threatening group to the status quo. trotsky Sep 2017 #11

Erased almost as throughly Lordquinton Sep 2017 #12

So true. trotsky Sep 2017 #13

Yes they are. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #14