I'm afraid you're making my point for me, that it is the rare person nowadays who understands the American founding period, and the intellectual currents that ultimately shaped the design of the Constitution and our rule of equal justice under law. The latter is essentially a Christian concept.
But then, it's not for nothing that this subject area is no longer taught in the public schools. I've recently learned that many standard American history textbooks used in the public schools nowadays start with the Civil War....
Thanks for writing, tpaine!
I didn't say it was.
It is essentially the moral and ontological philosophy of the Framers, with a boost from classical Athens (e.g., Aristotle, Plato). And it is not "fanatical."
I quoted Koestler because I think our author above is 'excessively devoted' to her anti-Evolutionary Humanism cause.
I'm afraid you're making my point for me, that it is the rare person nowadays who understands the American founding period, and the intellectual currents that ultimately shaped the design of the Constitution and our rule of equal justice under law. The latter is essentially a Christian concept.
Cite your support that our rule of equal justice under law is essentially a Christian concept. I contend that concept is so old it's lost in prehistory. Everyone from American Indians to pre-christian nordic societies have used that, as essentially, it derives from mans near universal 'golden rule'.
Thanks for writing, Betty!