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To: JesseShurun
You left out religious freedom

!!!???

How did I do that? You're reading things into to my posts that just aren't there. Far from "leaving out" religious freedom, my view is that the historical movement toward the liberal society in Europe began with the issue of religious freedom -- more specifically with the problem of church and state, and solving the problem of the bloody religious wars that haunted Europe for centuries.

726 posted on 07/10/2003 1:27:16 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
and once evolution or whatever Godless ideal you want your citizens to emulate is in effect

I don't want to "effect" any ideal, except by suasion and socialization in the context of the free society. I embrace the dynamism of a society of competing ideas, including those of fundamentalists, nor do I object to fundamentalists, or any other group, socializing their children, and attepting to persaude other members of society, as they see fit.

727 posted on 07/10/2003 1:33:02 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
Au contraire, only reading what you wrote

I believe that the classically liberal free society, where political and economic freedoms,

731 posted on 07/10/2003 1:53:33 AM PDT by JesseShurun (The Hazzardous Duke)
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