Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > But if you believe in the supreme value of the state, you can't > believe in the supreme value of God. If you believe in state > supremacy you are likely to also be an atheist. > > [Arlo] > Not according to the Monarchs and Theocrats who viewed, historically, > the Supreme Value of the State to be the manifest reality of God's > Will. I seem to recall the "Holy Roman Empire" being quite a profound > example of believing combining God and state. I also seem to recall > Europe's monarchs for the better part of Western History to have no > problem conflating the Supremacy of God with the Supremacy of The > State, sacrificing and executing dissidents towards the state in the > name of God. > > As I said, this attempt by "religion" to latch onto secular > enlightenment's ideas of "freedom" is naught but a pathetic attempt > by a castrated dogma to align itself with the philosophy that caused > its demise.
If you want to go back to ancient history, be my guest. Most are more interested in the last 100 years. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
