Charles Chilton Moore - Recent Mentions

Recent Mentions

• C.C. Moore was reintroduced to American freethinkers when Madalyn Murray O'Hair's American Atheist Press reprinted his first book, The Rational View, in 1984 and his autobiography, Behind the Bars; 31498, in 1990.
• Kentucky's Most Hated Man: Charles Chilton Moore & The Bluegrass Blade, a biography, written by almost famous, part-time writer, John Sparks, was published in the summer of 2009.
• Biology professor, atheist, and uncanny reinterpretation of Moore, PZ Myers, mentioned Moore on his popular blog, Pharyngula, on March 4, 2010.
• Hemant Mehta mentioned C.C. Moore on his blog, Friendly Atheist, on April 28, 2011, using Watson Heston's Rationalism Is Not Dead to start a conversation about how the so-called New Atheism at the beginning of the 21st century is not very new at all.
• Daniel Fincke, of the blog Camels with Hammers, mentioned Moore and the Blue Grass Blade on September 20, 2011, and again on September 28 after hearing about Thomas Lawson's Letters from an Atheist Nation, which was being published at the same time.
• PZ Myers mentioned the Camels with Hammers post and commented on Moore on his blog, Pharyngula, on September 28, 2011.
• Letters from an Atheist Nation: Godless Voices of America in 1903, by Thomas Lawson, features a short biography of Moore and the Blade. It also includes a compilation of letters written by Blade readers detailing their reasons for becoming atheists. It was published as an eBook on Amazon.com on September 25, 2011 and in paperback on December 13, 2011.
• On October 9, 2011, PZ Myers, upon reading Thomas Lawson's Letters from an Atheist Nation, decided to emulate Moore by asking for submissions from his readers as to why they are atheists, just as the Blue Grass Blade did in April 1903.