[Dr. Eckleburg]

...contemporary ideals of the Enlightment were of greater moment.

More's the pity.

CALVINISM IN HISTORY
by Lorraine Boettner (a guy)

...the perils of theocracy

See, this is what I don't understand. What's so perilous about a nation guided by God, obedient to His word and productive according to His will?

Yeah, that's a real fright-fest. God save us from Himself.

[Right Wing Professor]

What's so perilous about a nation guided by God, obedient to His word and productive according to His will?

When God appears, we'll give that serious thought.

In the interim, all we've had are nations ruled by men who said they were guided by God, insisting on obedience to what they claimed was his word, and productive according to their will. From 16th Century Geneva to 21st Century Iran, same old same old.

[SeaLion]

See, this is what I don't understand. What's so perilous about a nation guided by God, obedient to His word and productive according to His will? Yeah, that's a real fright-fest.

You, I do not doubt for a moment, are a decent man who shares many/perhaps most of the same conservative values that I do--but with respect, the statement you have made above is indistinguishable from the 'logic' (it is not logic) used by the Taliban of Afghanistan to justify their murderous theocratic nightmare

And for such regimes as the Taliban's, I think your phrase "fright-fest" a most apt characterisation

[Oztrich Boy]

What's so perilous about a nation guided by God, obedient to His word and productive according to His will?

Afghanistan under the Taliban

[Vive ut Vivas]

What's so perilous about a nation guided by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, obedient to his Noodliness and and productive according to His appetites?

[Elsie]

"Let's get them 'christians' fightin' between themselves over 'calvin' and we'll sit back and watch!"

--EvoDude

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