6/29/2023 0 Comments The great agnostic by susan jacoby![]() ![]() ![]() To the question that retains its controversial power today-was the United States founded as a Christian nation?-Ingersoll answered an emphatic no. When he died in 1899, even his religious enemies acknowledged that he might have aspired to the US presidency had he been willing to mask his opposition to religion. “Jacoby writes with wit and vigor, affectionately resurrecting a man whose life and work are due for reconsideration” ( The Boston Globe).ĭuring the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America’s enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as “the Great Agnostic.” The nation’s most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separation of church and state with a power unmatched since America’s revolutionary generation. ![]()
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