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To: general_re
Your syllogisms are logically true but unsound. If religion was the result of a dialectic, then I guess it wouldn't be religion, would it.

By the way, you never got around to defining "liberty", like I requested earlier. I think you stated something along the lines of "how could any society not be founded on liberty?"

I don't know. What's liberty?

343 posted on 08/12/2002 9:59:56 PM PDT by HumanaeVitae
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To: HumanaeVitae
Your syllogisms are logically true but unsound.

No, they're not even logically true. Think about it - by your logic, we can "prove" that any two classes of things that happen to share a particular quality are in fact one and the same. A surprising result, to put it mildly.

Atheism is materialistic, Marxism is materialistic, therefore atheism is Marxist. To which I say that all birds have wings, all bats have wings, therefore all birds are bats. All whales are marine animals, all sharks are marine animals, therefore all whales are sharks. Whee! This is fun, and a mighty powerful tool - stay tuned for my next adventure, where I "prove" that all Christians are Satanists! ;)

By the way, you never got around to defining "liberty", like I requested earlier. I think you stated something along the lines of "how could any society not be founded on liberty?"

If you cast your eyes back along the thread, I think you'll see that your question in #229 was "How do you establish a libertarian society when people can't agree on what 'liberty' entails?" And my response was "How do you establish any society when people can't agree on what 'liberty' means?"

348 posted on 08/12/2002 10:17:33 PM PDT by general_re
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