tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post6668026927819220796..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Teaching Enlightenment Religious Views in Public Schoolsgcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-64412666954000490992015-10-15T21:04:35.430-04:002015-10-15T21:04:35.430-04:00Samson, Gene has a PhD for a damned *reason*. Wha...Samson, Gene has a PhD for a damned *reason*. What is on this blog is not just 'hearsay'!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053155617490357148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-77055352392593335102015-10-15T13:18:41.550-04:002015-10-15T13:18:41.550-04:00That is an explicit rejection of individualism by ...That is an explicit rejection of individualism by Comte, though!Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-41000491328813913792015-10-15T10:03:46.802-04:002015-10-15T10:03:46.802-04:00And yes, Enlightenment religion is anti-clerical a...And yes, Enlightenment religion is anti-clerical and anti "superstition"... well, except for the new clerics of the Enlightenment, like Diderot, Jefferson, d'Alembert, and so on, and their own superstitions, like the myth of Galileo.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-11720462485139290532015-10-15T09:51:20.833-04:002015-10-15T09:51:20.833-04:00Samson, Bentham and Mises, both stars in the liber...Samson, Bentham and Mises, both stars in the liberal pantheon, both thought rights were "nonsense." You simply don't know the history of liberalism very well!gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-67339006941959047762015-10-14T08:04:56.402-04:002015-10-14T08:04:56.402-04:00"And someone produces a new, corrected Bible,..."And someone produces a new, corrected Bible, but you don't think that is a religious project?!"<br /><br />Not really… That is one way to look at it, but I think it takes some straining to do so. A much kore immediate conclusion is that it is a form or anti-clericalism or anti-"superstition".Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-34249896667235089572015-10-14T06:48:44.978-04:002015-10-14T06:48:44.978-04:00Auguste Comte wrote "Positivism never admits ...Auguste Comte wrote "Positivism never admits anything but duties, of all to all. For its persistently social point of view cannot tolerate the notion of rights, constantly based on individualism.". That absolutely does not sound like a liberal to me.<br /><br />As for what TJ did with the Bible, I never considered it to be a religious project because it seemed much more like an act of criticizing the notion of what he saw as impossibilities in religion (in this case Christianity).Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-19872099897426133302015-10-14T01:20:53.061-04:002015-10-14T01:20:53.061-04:00And someone produces a new, corrected Bible, but y...And someone produces a new, corrected Bible, but you don't think that is a religious project?!gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-35789142437150029682015-10-14T01:20:10.016-04:002015-10-14T01:20:10.016-04:00" I am aware of the existence of the "Re..." I am aware of the existence of the "Religion of Humanity", but it's founder, Auguste Comte, was in no way a liberal!"<br /><br />Say what?! He was a liberal HERO, one of JS Mill's favorites, until he made the religious aspects of the project too explicit.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-70077054461949429772015-10-09T21:11:54.434-04:002015-10-09T21:11:54.434-04:00I am aware of that Thomas Jefferson took an X-Acto...I am aware of that Thomas Jefferson took an X-Acto knife to the Bible to create what he believed to be a more accurate version of it (I presume that is what you are talking about). That used to be (and still sometimes is) one of my talking points. I am aware of the existence of the "Religion of Humanity", but it's founder, Auguste Comte, was in no way a liberal! As for Hegel, I don't know that much about him other than some hearsay and what you've said about him on this blog. The Religion of Humanity is screwy, but I never read into Jefferson's editing of the Bible as being religious in nature.Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-14587612848104660332015-10-09T13:34:33.267-04:002015-10-09T13:34:33.267-04:00No, because it was quite literally put forward as ...No, because it was quite literally put forward as man's salvation, as delivering the kingdom of heaven to earth, etc. Are you unaware of things like Jefferson making his own New Testament, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_of_Humanity" rel="nofollow">The Religion of Humanity</a>? Of Hegel anointing himself as the new Christ?gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-18112453662569690202015-10-09T07:33:06.158-04:002015-10-09T07:33:06.158-04:00Because it was a major change in the way people th...Because it was a major change in the way people thought?Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-35877514311434449272015-10-09T00:31:57.688-04:002015-10-09T00:31:57.688-04:00Yes Samson. I think the historical evidence on thi...Yes Samson. I think the historical evidence on this is overwhelming: the enlightenment was a new religious movement.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-59265260346737277612015-10-08T20:25:45.198-04:002015-10-08T20:25:45.198-04:00Do you really consider these to be religious views...Do you really consider these to be religious views?Samson Corwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10148822362930969284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-15419379018218673182015-10-06T14:22:30.126-04:002015-10-06T14:22:30.126-04:00Ken, commentsfromnincompoops.com is down. so I cou...Ken, commentsfromnincompoops.com is down. so I couldn't verify that last obnoxious turd dropping was actually from you, so I did not post it.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-64952312820227399722015-10-05T22:27:21.011-04:002015-10-05T22:27:21.011-04:00Gene, you are in a unique position to swat down su...Gene, you are in a unique position to swat down such foolishness with your kiddo. You should come in there like the Terminator and correct those fools! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00053155617490357148noreply@blogger.com