John J. Dunphy Quotes
The battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers that correctly perceive their role as proselytizers of a new faith which will replace the rotting corpse of Christianity
John J. Dunphy, *, Humanist Philosopher & Educator, Quoted in Humanist Magazine, Jan-February, 1983
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Ferrer was the last public figure to be executed in Europe for heresy.
Everett was to become the President of Harvard. Private universities had been established by a single religion and typically had professorships of clergy of their religion, but when public universities were contemplated, new thinking was needed in the light of the American Constitution. Madison’s suggested solution is the one that America pursued. Separate the theological seminaries from the public universities.
In that era the favoritism of the government—especially state and local government—in favor of the of the Protestant Christians. Politicians started challenging the clear unconstitutional favoritism. The reformers were Republicans often referred to by the Democrats as “Godless Republicans”. A century later the Republicans would oppose strict separation of church and state with the Southerners and Fundamentalist Christians in their party and the Democrats fighting to maintain strict separation of church and state.
