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The OP is an example of failing schools in the US. We are creating idiots in our universities.
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It's true. The political entity known as the "United States of America" was not founded on the Christian religion. That said, the influence of Christianity on the founding of America is pervasive, immense, and undeniable. The biggest reason why militant secularists want to hide this truth is because they disdain any belief system where the state isn't the highest authority.
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
The United States of America is not Christian. But America - at least, the idea of America - definitely is. Granted, there are other threads of influence besides Christianity, but the culture and ideology of early America was fully Christianized.
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
pjohns (11-23-2017)
...enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter...
--Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
pjohns (11-23-2017)
...the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...
--American Declaration of Independence
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
pjohns (11-23-2017)
You assume, incorrectly, that reason and logic are important to liberals today. Classical liberals certainly believed so, but that was attacked by the likes of Rousseau and Hegel, predecessors to today's liberals. I'm sure they see you pointing out a logical fallacy and shake their collective heads in dismay, what's wrong with you!
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
pjohns (11-23-2017)
You are surely correct: Today's liberals (not to be confused with the earlier believers in liberal democracy) are much more about feelings than thought processes: If one does not attitudinize in the politically correct way, well, then one is to be dismissed--even scorned.
As for the Enlightenment philosophers that you have cited, I never cared for Rousseau. Hegel, in some ways, is a bit more complicated; but Wikipedia says of him, that "Maurice Merleau-Ponty [a French philosopher] wrote that 'all the great philosophical ideals of the past century--[including] the philosophies of Marx and Nietzsche...had their beginnings in Hegel.'"
'Nuff said.
Anyway, I much prefer the philosophies of John Locke (on whom this country was founded) and Thomas Hobbes.
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