JohnW
Posts: 3217 Joined: Aug. 2006
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He Who Must Not Be Named, Even Though He Links To A Website With His Name On It Every Five Minutes: Quote | For instance, above I have in 94 and 96 cited: Vindiciae 1579, the Dutch DoI 1581 that builds on it, Lex Rex, Locke with Hooker and Aristotle, some very helpful deeply informed commentary, as well as directly relevant scripture that answers to AH’s talking points.
In other comments I have taken time to cite US founding documents and give relevant explanations.
Also, 94 is in effect largely a summary on trends that undergirded the emergence of modern liberty and democracy, bringing out why it was not feasible before C17 – 19, and showing key reasons why it arose where it did, including the impact of the Judaeo-Christan heritage and the reformation.
Of course you and others are free to ignore.
But, at the cost of continuing to believe and/or enable pernicious error in the teeth of easy access to answers that took years to compile — and which to my best recall has not been seriously previously discussed at UD.
But, given what is now on the table from radical secularists, it is critical.
The lessons of sound history were written in blood and tears. Those who brush them aside, reject or ignore such doom themselves to have to learn them again, at much the same price. |
linky Does the Guinness Book Of Records have anything for "highest ratio of self-importance to actual importance"?
-------------- Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers
There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"... The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG
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