ABSTRACT
With the publication in 1903 of Lord Russell’s now celebrated essay, ‘A Free Man’s Worship’, his views on religion were followed avidly by most writers on this subject. In fact this one essay became a classic and one of the most quoted in twentiethcentury literature. His views on religion remained the same since he was fifteen years old but the evidence for belief in traditional religious dogma has never undergone any great changes either, in spite of apologetics for ecumenical reform. Lord Russell was a patient man. He never opposed those for whom mythology is a cultural characteristic; he did, however, repeatedly attack those who adopted various psychological and physical means of persecuting their opponents in propagating their myths.
