[lbo-talk] Texas school board drops Jefferson, adds Calvin

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Mar 16 11:24:05 PDT 2010


On Mar 16, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Chris Doss wrote:


> To be fair, while taking Jefferson out is weird, you can't really
> understand the Enlightenment without including its twin, the
> Protestant Reformation, and without including what both were
> reacting to, Aquinas.

No you can't. Of course people should study Aquinas and Calvin. And I'm no fan of Jefferson. But you know the reason he was taken out is that he was secular.

Doug



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