Popular Questions and Objections.
1. It is objected that Freethought is destructive, not constructive.
(a) It is destructive of error, crime, cruelty, superstition and all kinds of wrong and oppression.
(b) It is constructive in its defense and support of the rights of man, woman, and child.
(c) It is constructive in seeking to establish the highest form of morality, that is, rational morality.
(d) It is constructive, because it inspires man with a thirst for knowledge, and puts him in sympathy with science.
(e) It is positive and reconstructive in inspiring man with moral courage.
“What will you give us in place of religion?”
(a) We would put in place of religion, liberty, morality, honesty, courage, knowledge, and manliness.