Author: Robert O’Neil
Robert O’Neil is the founding director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was formerly president of the University of Virginia. This article is based on a talk presented at the Council for Secular Humanism’s Spring 2003 conference on “One Nation Without God?,” commemorating the 260th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth.
Church-State Separation
A View From The Pew A March 2003 cover story in The New York Times Magazine reminded us of the centrality in international affairs of our secular traditions.1 The article concerned Sayyid Quth, an Egyptian who has been called the philosopher of Al Qaeda. In assessing the basis for his deep, intense hostility toward the United …