hey, all you secular humanists out there: it's our day!

[Bill Millard]

>From a Lingua Franca article on campus agnostic/atheist 
organizations, I just found out that it's...

> Freethought Day (October 12, the day in 1692 that Massachusetts
> courts banned spectral evidence from the Salem witch trials) 

OK.  Sounds good from here.  Happy Freethought Day, and be sure and 
say a word of thanks to the likes of Th. Jefferson and Robert 
Ingersoll and Clarence Darrow and Madalyn Probably-Murdered O'Hair 
and innumerable others whose underappreciated ideas and works have 
helped keep us from living in an overt theocracy.  Something there is 
that doesn't love a wall between church and state, no doubt, but 
without one we'd have the likes of Ayatollah Donald Wildmon and Grand 
Inquisitor Giuliani picking our reading lists for us.  

(TRP Relevance Quotient: admittedly minimal, except maybe for 
implicit reference to that passage in _M&D_ about Deists being in the 
Chariot....)

--Bill


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