[lbo-talk] Barack Obama

[R]

At 05:24 PM 11/7/2004, you wrote:
>Justin wrote:
>>Yeah, only morons like Augustine, Aquinas, Anselm,
>>William of Occam, Duns Scotus, Dante, Descartes,
>Leibniz, Newton, Kant, and Hegel are(sic) Christians.
>
>Yeah, all of those *called themselves* "Christians."  All
>(except--perhaps--Augustine)  would have gravely risked
>their lives, their freedom, and/or their social position if
>they had dared to call themselves anything else.  And
>none of them would qualify as "Christians" by the
>Falwell/Robertson/Swaggert/Graham standards for
>who is--and is not--"Born Again."
>
>Shane Mage

doesn't anyone ever think of Bishop George Berkeley anymore?

http://www.geocities.com/krinklyman2/berkeley.html

Falwell/Robertson/Swaggert/Graham put descartes before des horse.

R


>  "Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
>  living their deaths, dying their lives"
>
>Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
>
>
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