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To: jennyp
What exactly do you mean by "the human condition" that makes it impossible to take God out of it?

I mean that a political science that excludes the God question from the table is false to its constituencies. Cicero is a good example of a skeptic who recognized this. Since all mankind desires to be ethical by nature, it is our human condition to be religious.

47 posted on 03/26/2002 12:41:40 PM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis
Since all mankind desires to be ethical by nature, it is our human condition to be religious.

IC. I'd just say that I agree with the 1st part of that statement, but the 2nd part only follows if you assume the facts of the natural world cannot give us any basis for ethics.

A very interesting discussion, this has been. (Also the earlier thread someone pointed out above.)

50 posted on 03/26/2002 6:04:21 PM PST by jennyp
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