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To: spirited irish
Secular Humanism, Marxism-Leninism, Post Modernism 1. Theology: atheism, atheism, atheism...

Actually both Marx and Lenin were inspired by Saint Sir Thomas More's, "Utopia".

Lenin and Marx went so far as to setup a memorial to Saint More in Moscow in 1918.

Anybody can use anything for inspiration.

43 posted on 09/18/2007 6:27:39 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
You can find him in Rome where he was canonized a saint in 1935 and named the patron of statesmen in 2000. You can find him on stage and on film in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons. You can find him in bookstores the world over, still posthumously pedaling his hotly debated and famous philosophic dialogue Utopia. So hotly debated was that book that you can even find More's name engraved on a Leninist monument near the Kremlin, erected in 1918, celebrating him as one of that handful "who promoted the liberation of humankind from oppression, arbitrariness, and exploitation."

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46 posted on 09/18/2007 6:41:42 PM PDT by js1138
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Actually both Marx and Lenin were inspired by Saint Sir Thomas More's, "Utopia".

Then the joke's on them: Unlike either Marx or Lenin, More was well aware that the word "utopia" means nowhere (in Greek)....

69 posted on 09/19/2007 10:00:29 AM PDT by betty boop ("Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -- A. Einstein)
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