Editing Freethought (section)

=====United States tradition=====
Freethought influenced the development of [[anarchism in the United States]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Koenig|first=Brigitte Anne|title=American Anarchism: The Politics of Gender, Culture, and Community from Haymarket to the First World War|year=2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45pNAQAAMAAJ|volume=2|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|publication-date=2000|page=315|isbn=|access-date=11 April 2021|quote=[...] parts of the anarchist movement in the United States actually stemmed from free thought circles [...].}}</ref> In the U.S.,{{when?|date=April 2021}} <blockquote>"free thought was a basically [[Anti-Christianity|anti-Christian]], [[anti-clerical]] movement, whose purpose was to make the individual politically and spiritually free to decide for himself on religious matters. A number of contributors to ''[[Liberty (1881–1908)|Liberty]]'' were prominent figures in both free thought and anarchism. The [[Individualist anarchism in the United States|American individualist anarchist]] George MacDonald [(1857–1944)] was a co-editor of ''Freethought'' and, for a time, ''The Truth Seeker.'' E. C. Walker was co-editor of the freethought/free love journal ''[[Lucifer, the Light-Bearer]]''."<ref name="mises.org">{{cite web |url= https://mises.org/journals/jls/5_3/5_3_4.pdf |title= The Journal of Libertarian Studies |work= Mises Institute |access-date= 12 June 2015 |date= 2014-07-30 |archive-date= 2013-09-11 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130911065010/http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/5_3/5_3_4.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref></blockquote> "Many of the anarchists were ardent freethinkers; reprints from free thought papers such as ''[[Lucifer, the Light-Bearer]]'', ''Freethought'' and ''The Truth Seeker'' appeared in ''Liberty''...The church was viewed as a common ally of the state and as a repressive force in and of itself."<ref name="mises.org"/>