Great essay. In the UK it is hammered into us Christianity is the bedrock of the nation and this is the essence of Conservatism. Small wonder Conservatism has presided over a decades long drift to the Left and anti capitalist environmentalism of net zero growth.
Isn't it a mistake to call Newton, Locke, Bacon, Jefferson, etc Christian as if they had no other cultural/philosophical influences on them. At that point they were steeped in Greek-Roman and more modern thought. At best they were mixed Christians, or Christians in part. I don't know what the right term for them would be at this point, but to say they were Christian is absurd since most of their ideas are not based on the Bible.
It's as absurd as calling some Pagan that just had some water poured on his head during baptism just a Christian, as if being dunked in water erases thousands of years of pagan culture and religion.
I created the Laissez-faire Capitalist Constitutional Republic of Atlantis. You and all consistent Objectivists at ARI are immediately granted full citizenship. We must create the land, space, on or off planet where are nation will exist.
I think I've made it clear this is a review of one book, and so I'm covering the essential issues raised by that book. I have a more positive statement of the transformation of the West, a book that Yaron Brook and I are in the process of completing. Alas, I can't address everything all at once. As I said to you before, I'm going to address the issues you've raised, but I'm going to complete this series first.
Great essay. In the UK it is hammered into us Christianity is the bedrock of the nation and this is the essence of Conservatism. Small wonder Conservatism has presided over a decades long drift to the Left and anti capitalist environmentalism of net zero growth.
Isn't it a mistake to call Newton, Locke, Bacon, Jefferson, etc Christian as if they had no other cultural/philosophical influences on them. At that point they were steeped in Greek-Roman and more modern thought. At best they were mixed Christians, or Christians in part. I don't know what the right term for them would be at this point, but to say they were Christian is absurd since most of their ideas are not based on the Bible.
It's as absurd as calling some Pagan that just had some water poured on his head during baptism just a Christian, as if being dunked in water erases thousands of years of pagan culture and religion.
I created the Laissez-faire Capitalist Constitutional Republic of Atlantis. You and all consistent Objectivists at ARI are immediately granted full citizenship. We must create the land, space, on or off planet where are nation will exist.
I think I've made it clear this is a review of one book, and so I'm covering the essential issues raised by that book. I have a more positive statement of the transformation of the West, a book that Yaron Brook and I are in the process of completing. Alas, I can't address everything all at once. As I said to you before, I'm going to address the issues you've raised, but I'm going to complete this series first.