Gary Sloan
Gary Sloan is a retired English professor living in Ruston, Louisiana. He writes for freethought media, including Free Inquiry, Skeptic, The Freethinker (London), American Atheist, and Skeptical Inquirer.
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Old Presidents and New Theocrats
In newspaper editorials and letters, new-fashioned theocrats try to subvert the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by adducing pious remarks of the first U. S. Presidents. The comments are supposed to demonstrate that the first presidents sanctioned sponsorship of religious interests. On the contrary, these presidents left considerable evidence that they favored a strict separation of church and state.
Shelley the Atheist
Vilified by his contemporaries as an unrepentant atheist, the great poet was nothing like the monster envisioned by the public.
George W. Bush: Militant Theocrat
In viewing himself as an instrument of divine will and America as God's country, Bush is a throwback to the Puritan theocracies.
Bush Oblivious to Infidels
Had Bush not packaged his personal beliefs as inviolable truths in his address at the 51st annual National Prayer Breakfast, his sermonizing might be excusable. As it stands, however, his words make it apparent that he is oblivious to those who do not share his faith.
Robert Frost: Old Testament Christian or Atheist?
Throughout his adult life, Frost vacillated between piety and irreverence, faith and skepticism. Although his wife accused him of being a closet atheist, he was never quite able to eradicate the fear of God implanted in him by his Puritan forebears.
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