An open letter to Jesus Christ

Largely forgotten today, DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818–1882) was a ground-breaking and courageous liberal publisher whose magazine, Truth Seeker, fought for freedom of thought, women's rights, and a free press long before such ideas were fashionable.

The 1875 essay presented here was considered so inflammatory that it resulted in the trumped-up arrest and imprisonment of Bennett by Anthony Comstock, special agent of the U.S. Post Office.

Bennett served 13 months in the Albany penitentiary but left prison unbowed. He appeared in New York shortly after his release in 1880 and The Times remarked that "the speakers exhausted the deepest corners of the unabridged Dictionary in throwing epithets at the Creator, the ministry, the Christian religion, and the Republican Party."

This powerful and explosive essay is still as thought-provoking as the day it was written and is an important cornerstone of modern atheistic thought.

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