Editing Freethought (section)

====Switzerland====
{{Main|Freethinkers Association of Switzerland}}

With the introduction of cantonal [[church tax]]es in the 1870s, [[anti-clericalism|anti-clericals]] began to organise themselves. Around 1870, a "freethinkers club" was founded in [[Zürich]]. During the debate on the Zürich church law in 1883, professor Friedrich Salomon Vögelin and city council member Kunz proposed to [[separation of church and state|separate church and state]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.frei-denken.ch/de/2008/04/geschichte-der-freidenker/ |title=Geschichte der Freidenker |work=FAS website |access-date=10 May 2016 |language=de |archive-date=2 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171102120645/http://www.frei-denken.ch/de/2008/04/geschichte-der-freidenker/ |url-status=live }}</ref>