Fri 12 Jun, 2009 06:04 pm - This is a digression, regardless of my own view, I was pointing out that even [I]if [/I]you see the catholic church in the middle ages as evil, twisted, patriachal, strict, or whathever, any decent... (view)
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 03:23 pm - [QUOTE=Bonaventurian;68366]The United States of America is the greatest country on the face of the planet.[/QUOTE]
The united states was founded by a combination of religous fanatics who wanted the... (view)
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 03:12 pm - [QUOTE=hue-man;68553]Actually, enlightenment humanism did lead to it, just like the renaissance and the scientific revolution lead to the enlightenment. The justification for the position that... (view)
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 03:45 am - [QUOTE=Eudaimon;68004]I tell thee: Kill the person thy neighbour. Think that's my order. If thou thou dost that, I shall really not care: I can't see blood, neither have I anger. The word... (view)
Fri 12 Jun, 2009 03:42 am - [QUOTE=hue-man;68435]Scientific skepticism and enlightenment humanism led to the conclusion that there was no justification for the belief in divine revelation[/QUOTE]
Actually the enlightenment... (view)
Thu 11 Jun, 2009 04:12 pm - All human societys are hierarchical, as it is the only way to organise anything- organisation being inevitably an assertion of authority, and any asserstion of authority forming a hierarchy right... (view)
Thu 11 Jun, 2009 03:31 am - Plato was not opposed to mysticism, at least not as you mean it, nor was Aristotle entirely. Plato objected to the [I]nature [/I]of greek mysticism not mysticism itself. He felt that they had put... (view)
Wed 10 Jun, 2009 04:57 am - Um greek philosophy didn't die, it evolved as part of later Christian and Islamic theology, and represents the foundation of philosophical and theological thought. (view)
Tue 9 Jun, 2009 04:20 pm - The sharia courts, even as an optional extra, are utterly unacceptable. Islamic women filing for divorce will 99 times out of a 100, I guarrentee, get pressured into going through a sharia trial,... (view)
