Editing Freethought (section)

====Ireland====
In the 19th century, received opinion was scandalized by [[George Ensor]] (1769–1843).<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last1=Strachan |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aMbaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT144 |title=British Satire, 1785-1840, Volume 1 |last2=Jones |first2=Steven E. |date=2020-04-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-71299-5 |pages=144 |language=en |access-date=2023-04-30 |archive-date=2023-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230415080208/https://books.google.com/books?id=aMbaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT144 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Duddy |first=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TJBtm__n3sC |title=A History of Irish Thought |date=2012 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-62352-5 |pages=118–119 |language=en |access-date=2023-04-30 |archive-date=2023-04-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427222539/https://books.google.com/books?id=2TJBtm__n3sC |url-status=live }}</ref> His ''Review of the Miracles, Prophecies, & Mysteries of the Old and New Testaments'' (1835) argued that, far from being a source of moral teaching, revealed religion and its divines regarded questions of morality as "incidental"--as a "mundane and merely philosophical" topic.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ensor |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-5iAAAAcAAJ |title=A Review of the Miracles, prophecies, and mysteries of the Old and New Testaments, and of the morality and consolation of the Christian Religion |date=1835 |publisher=John Brooks |location=London |pages=88, 91, 103 |language=en |access-date=2023-04-30 |archive-date=2023-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411123327/https://books.google.com/books?id=E-5iAAAAcAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>