Joseph L. Lewis

Joseph Lewis ( born June 11, 1889 in Montgomery, Alabama, † 1968) was an American freethinker. He was known for his commitment to atheism.

Life

Lewis came early with the writings of Robert G. Ingersoll and Thomas Paine in touch. Since 1920 he lived in New York, where he was from because life president of the Freethinkers of America. He founded his own publishing house, the Freethought Press Association, to publish literature on the Freethought. Later he expanded his publishing. In 1937, the number of Freethinkers of America first appeared and was later Freethinker and ultimately renamed Age of Reason (after Paine's The Age of Reason ). Contributions came from, among others, William J. Fielding, Corliss Lamont and Franklin Steiner.

Works (selection)

• The Tyranny of God ( 1921)
• Lincoln, the Freethinker (1925 )
• Jefferson, the Freethinker (1925 )
• The Bible Unmasked (1926 )
• Franklin, the Freethinker (1926 )
• Burbank, the Infidel (1929 )
• Voltaire, the Incomparable Infidel (1929 )
• Atheism, a collection of his public addresses (1930 )
• The Bible and the Public Schools ( 1931)
• Should Children Receive Religious Instruction? (1933 )
• The Ten Commandments ( 1946)
• Thomas Paine, author of the Declaration of Independence (1947 )
• In the Name of Humanity (1949 )
• An Atheist Manifesto (1954 )

• Representatives of atheism
• Americans
• Author
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1968
• Man