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Infidels,
Freethinkers, Humanists, and Unbelievers |
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of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always
been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians
quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general
unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes
about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to
sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged
each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were
Christian things to do...."
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Russell Baker
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Russell
Wayne Baker is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for
his satirical commentary and self-critical prose.
Baker was born
in Morrisonville, Virginia. He received his B.A. from the Krieger
School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in 1947.
He went on to become an essayist, journalist and biographer, as
well as the host of the PBS show Masterpiece Theatre from 1992
to 2004.
Neil
Postman, in the preface to Conscientious Objections, describes
Baker as "...like some fourth century citizen of Rome who
is amused and intrigued by the Empire's collapse but who still
cares enough to mock the stupidities that are hastening its end.
He is, in my opinion, a precious national resource, and as long
as he does not get his own television show, America will remain
stronger than Russia." (1991, xii) He received his Pulitzer
Prizes for the New York Times "Observer" column he wrote,
and for his memoir entitled "Growing Up." |
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