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To: betty boop
tpaine, Judeo-Christian theology is neither a tribe, nation, church, nor cause.

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!

486 posted on 06/26/2007 4:18:00 PM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: tpaine
Cite your support that our rule of equal justice under law is essentially a Christian concept.

Because Christianity declares that all men are "equal" under and before God, Who one day will judge us "equally," according to His justice. Every person has dignity; every person has unalienable rights. This is so because we are all desired sons (and daughters) of God, and He gives us what we need to be fully human....

492 posted on 06/26/2007 5:07:26 PM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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