1930-2009
Indian skeptic and rationalist, founded the Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations, which tours the villages of India to spread his ideas of natural explanations of gurus and fakirs whom he considered frauds or self deceived.
Key Figures in Humanism
Baron d'Holbach
1723 - 1789
French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He is best known for his atheism and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770).
