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To: TASMANIANRED

Who said, "Without God, everything is permissible."


14 posted on 10/28/2006 4:00:35 PM PDT by Liberty Wins (Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of all who threaten it.)
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To: Liberty Wins

I don't know the author but he was correct.


18 posted on 10/28/2006 4:07:51 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Liberty Wins; Alamo-Girl; Texas Songwriter; xzins; metmom
Who said, "Without God, everything is permissible."

That was Ivan Karamazov, in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. He was a nihilist.

Just came across this "golden oldie" again, after a very long time. IMHO, the Nancy Pearcey article is still 100% on the money after eleven years.... I'm glad I had a chance to revisit it again.

348 posted on 09/05/2011 10:39:54 AM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through, the eye. — William Blake)
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