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To: BlueDragon
"Then you can thank these Calvinists, among a great many others;"

You can thank the non-Calvinists for the first 10 Amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, ratified as a precondition to the work of your framers. Jefferson, Adams and numerous others railed against the Presbyterian "Popes of Boston" and the opposition to individual freedom they posed.

128 posted on 05/03/2011 8:10:18 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

Non- Calvinists? Perhaps some sentiment that-a-ways, but George Mason and Patrick Henry were most assuredly not Roman Catholic.

Otherwise, the idea of individual freedoms for the common man, we don't find coming much from the Roman papacy of some centuries ago, no matter how much they may now be persuaded of it's benefits.

The criticism you refer to concerning "the Popes of Boston", doesn't exactly reflect well upon papal thought, now does it? It seems you've sort-of shot yourself in the foot.

Now if one wished to argue that unbridled "freedom", without moral restraint is a formula for self-destruction, there could be wide agreement found among a great many of us here.

144 posted on 05/03/2011 12:44:02 PM PDT by BlueDragon (tonto he got smart said listenkimmosabe, kissmyass I boughtaboat, I'm headedout to sea)
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