On 9 Jun 2009 at 15:26, Arlo Bensinger wrote: > [Platt] > Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 > > [Arlo] > So spaketh slave owners and protagonists of genocide against the > indigenous peoples. If they wrote "leprechauns exist", I suppose > you'd believe in them.
Gee, I wonder why I would tend to believe those who founded a nation over a college instructor or some modern SOM intellectual?. > "And yet, although Jefferson called this doctrine of social equality > "self-evident," it is not at all self-evident. Scientific evidence > and the social evidence of history indicate the opposite is > self-evident. There is no "self-evidence" in European history that > all men are created equal. There's no nation in Europe that doesn't > trace its history to a time when it was "self-evident" that all men > are created unequal. Jean Jacques Rousseau, who is sometimes given > credit for this doctrine, certainly didn't get it from the history of > Europe or Asia or Africa. He got it from the impact of the New World > upon Europe and from contemplation of one particular kind of > individual who lived in the New World, the person he called the > "Noble Savage." (Pirsig) > > He got it from CONTEMPLATION. It's an intellectual pattern. And these > derive from culture. No. The founders and their forebears got it from REVELATION. What did culture derive from? 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/
