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Author To Visit Pikesville: 'Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt'

Herb Silverman will talk about his life and new memoir Candidate Without a Prayer: Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt.


In 1990, Silverman, a long-time math professor at College of Charleston challenged South Carolina's requirement that candidates for office believe in a supreme being.


Silverman was disqualified but seven years later the South Carolina Supreme Court declared the religious test unconstitutional.

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Silverman went on to found the Secular Coalition for America.


Herb Silverman will sign copies of his book after his talk.

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This event is co-sponsored by Baltimore Jewish Cultural Chavurah and Baltimore Coalition of Reason.

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