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To: Tau Food

And Socrates was a pagan - it didn’t and doesn’t stop him from being one of the founders of Western thought and philosophy.

And Thomas Jefferson was a Deist (at best) - that doesn’t stop him from being a highly influential founding father whose wisdom is cited and will be cited by lovers of liberty until the end of human history.

If one is only to adopt useful and correct ideas from those who share the same religious tradition - one will live in a very shallow and dim world.


12 posted on 08/15/2012 8:05:49 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream
If one is only to adopt useful and correct ideas from those who share the same religious tradition - one will live in a very shallow and dim world.

One would be a muslim?

26 posted on 08/15/2012 8:48:16 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1304 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...)
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