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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 62. Chapters: Secularism, Robert G. Ingersoll, Eugen Relgis, Humanism, History of atheism, Anti-clericalism, U Dhammaloka, American Atheists, Infidel, Secular ethics, Sisterdale, Texas, Irreligion in Australia, Ibn al-Rawandi, Nontheist Friend, New Atheism, Invisible Pink Unicorn, Al-Ma arri, Atheist Alliance International, Dan Barker, Edwin Kagin, August Siemering, Charles Knowlton, John M. Robertson, Atheism 3.0, J. T. Eberhard, Organized secularism, Free Inquiry, Freethought Day, Godless Americans March on Washington, The Freethinker, Keith Porteous Wood, Jim Lippard, Eddie Tabash, New Humanist, Barbara Smoker, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Jim Herrick, David Tribe, World Humanist Day, David Fitzgerald, Did Christians Steal Christmas?, Strong agnosticism, John William Gott, Muhammad al Warraq, Louis Appignani, Marshall Gauvin, Golden Age of Freethought, Boston Investigator, Squadrone Volante. Excerpt: Eugen D. Relgis (backward reading of Eisig D. Sigler; first name also Eugenio, Eugene or Eugene, last name also Siegler or Siegler Watchel; March 22, 1895 - May 24, 1987) was a Romanian writer, pacifist philosopher and anarchist militant, known as a theorist of humanitarianism. His internationalist dogma, with distinct echoes from Judaism and Jewish ethics, was first shaped during World War I, when Relgis was a conscientious objector. Infused with anarcho-pacifism and socialism, it provided Relgis with an international profile, and earned him the support of pacifists such as Romain Rolland, Stefan Zweig and Albert Einstein. Another, more controversial, aspect of Relgis' philosophy was his support for eugenics, which centered on the compulsory sterilization of "degenerates." The latter proposal was voiced by several of Relgis' essays and sociological tracts. After an early debut with Romania's Symbolist movement, Relgis promoted modernist ...