Re: Howard Dean: The Wolf in Sheeps Clothes
"Timothy R. Butler" <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 09:50 pm, Daniel Cassidy wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2003 1:37 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > > "Even today many educated people think that the victory of > > > Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of > > > the former -- although in this case it was only the coarser and more > > > violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as > > > superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening > > > sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of > > > Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity." > > > > If we are to assume this, then we must assume that the slow advancement > > of Secular Humanism over Christianity in society must mean that it is > > coarser and more violent and that it conquerored the more spiritual and > > delicate. > > and we must also assume that you completely misunderstood that quote. No, I'm just noting the error that is made in the first assumption of the quote. I won't argue that the Greeks weren't smart cookies, they were. I would also assert that where Greek philosophy is valid, it generally does not interfere with Christianity. Of course, unless you are hoping to defend the existance of Zeus or some such. ;-) -Tim - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler Universal Networks www.uninet.info ==================== <[email protected]> ==================== | Christian Portal: | Have you not learned great lessons | | www.faithtree.com | from those who braced themselves | | GNU/Linux News: | against you and disputed the | | www.ofb.biz | passage with you? --Walt Whitman | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TrDIK37Cns9gJ0gRAszSAJ9ERHoar/T82jOv519RxgujDWDnTQCdGb04 Oq5h92jCnbx7H99kjocRAOs= =IJE2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.