Comments on: Dems may let atheist speak at party’s “interfaith service” http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/dems-may-let-atheist-speak-at-partys-interfaith-service Religion editor Frank Lockwood's spirituality blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Caleb Powers http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/dems-may-let-atheist-speak-at-partys-interfaith-service/comment-page-1#comment-7141 Caleb Powers Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:52:50 +0000 http://biblebeltblogger.com/index.php/religion/dems-may-let-atheist-speak-at-partys-interfaith-service#comment-7141 I don't know about this one, but if they do, it won't be the first time a heretic has been feted by a political party. According to a NYTimes blog, Robert Ingersoll, the radical empiricist who was widely viewed as a heretic in Victorian America, known as the Great Agnostic, was the darling of the Republican (yes, Republican) party and helped get Rutherford Hayes elected president in 1876, after which he was a frequent visitor to the White House: http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/the-legend-of-a-heretic/index.html?scp=1&sq=heretic&st=blog It's kind of sad that we were more openminded in the 1870s than we are today. Appare I don’t know about this one, but if they do, it won’t be the first time a heretic has been feted by a political party. According to a NYTimes blog, Robert Ingersoll, the radical empiricist who was widely viewed as a heretic in Victorian America, known as the Great Agnostic, was the darling of the Republican (yes, Republican) party and helped get Rutherford Hayes elected president in 1876, after which he was a frequent visitor to the White House:

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/the-legend-of-a-heretic/index.html?scp=1&sq=heretic&st=blog

It’s kind of sad that we were more openminded in the 1870s than we are today.

Appare

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