Posted on 02/09/2015 7:40:58 AM PST by NYer
“I should have known that”....seriously? wow...and a religion major no less, crazy.
The GOOD that came from the thinking of our Founding Fathers was principally from Christianity ...rather than the enlightenment itself. In actuality, their thinking was a beneficial marriage of faith and reason, with the understanding that both came from God.
“Most intellectual movements are given their name by men who study them. The Enlightenment is peculiar in that it named itself. This happened when certain thinkers and writers, ones who lived and worked mainly in France and England, saw themselves as “enlightened” in comparison with most other men, and, setting out to enlighten the others, said that is what they were doing. Many of the men of whom we speak were trained as mathematicians or scientists. When they spoke of themselves as enlightened, what they meant was that by the light of reason they had freed themselves from ignorance and superstition, which is to say, orthodox religion, and had thereby come to understand that the hierarchically-based, political-social order then prevailing nearly everywhere was bound to be oppressive or downright tyrannical insofar as both those at society’s summit and those lower down in it saw the order as being willed by God.” ...G. Potter
Those who make much of the Enlightenment today are very utilitarian in their views and often call themselves liberals or progressives. They tend to make “reason” (as they understand it) their solitary deity.
John chapter 16 right?
Wikipedia is NOT a scholarly source.
Full fortissimo.
For later
So we can quibble about implications. Christendom learned some lessons from its Savior that it had been slow to catch on to.
revisionist papist pap.
For the particular allegations raised, is it true or not?
Of the times we were successful in Iraq - we drew on dark responses that were hard and terrifying...only then did the insurgents think before acting...only then did we have safety for our team members...if only for a short time.
It’s all they understand...truly saddening...but facts don’t lie and it was the way of death that they sought, never light or life!
Yes, I should not have been stunned, though. She was a raging lib.
“Wikipedia is NOT a scholarly source.”
Attacking the messenger is a logical fallacy.
Lol! Tell that to the faculty at ANY university when you attempt to turn in a research paper.
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