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The Golden Age of Freethought describes the 19th-century United States socio-political movement which promoted freethought. Generally speaking, the period from 1875 to 1914 is referred to as "the high-water mark of freethought as an influential movement in American society".[1]
Politically, the atheist movement has leaned left in its politics (See: Secular left and Atheism and politics). Secular leftist utopianism and its exalted view of human nature did not line up with the horrors of the World War I and the Golden Age of Freethought ended at the start of World War I.
The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union further chilled Americans receptiveness to atheism.
- ↑ Jacoby, Susan. Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, p. 151