Emmett F. Fields

American atheist writer & freethought publisher · operated the Bank of Wisdom, Louisville, Kentucky

Emmett F. Fields was an American atheist writer and freethought publisher who ran the Bank of Wisdom, a Louisville, Kentucky project devoted to reprinting and preserving rare freethought literature. His best-known piece, Atheism: An Affirmative View, began life as a Sunday talk at the Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church in October 1980 and was picked up by American Rationalist the next year. Outside freethought circles his name is close to unknown — which is exactly the condition under which the internet swaps in a famous one.

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“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature”

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