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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Enlightenment was an 18th Century European movement of philosophy and science which stressed the supremacy of reason over religious revelation or ancestral tradition

Atheism is a superb example of a modern metanarrative — a totalising view of things, locked into the world view of the Enlightenment.
22 posted on 01/23/2007 9:47:23 AM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: gcruse

In my religion, by the way, reason and faith coexist.


25 posted on 01/23/2007 9:58:31 AM PST by steve8714 (Isn't Israel a sovereign nation? Why do they do what we tell them to do?)
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To: gcruse
"Atheism is a superb example of a modern metanarrative — a totalising view of things, locked into the world view of the Enlightenment."

It's locked into something alright . . .;^)

28 posted on 01/23/2007 6:05:59 PM PST by Abcdefg
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