To: steve8714
"Christian enlightenment "
I love oxymorons in the morning. :)
13 posted on
01/23/2007 8:12:52 AM PST by
gcruse
(http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
To: gcruse
Why is "Christian enlightenment" an oxymoron?
21 posted on
01/23/2007 9:25:13 AM PST by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
To: gcruse
I did not capitalize. I was referring to the virtue, not the movement. Smith himself speaks of an "Invisible hand" guiding the capitalist. Are we to infer some godless movement from that?
Marxism is much more a product of the Enlightenment than is classical capitalism. Capitalism is a product of mere enlightenment.
24 posted on
01/23/2007 9:57:41 AM PST by
steve8714
(Isn't Israel a sovereign nation? Why do they do what we tell them to do?)
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