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    "The structure of nature may eventually be such that our processes of thought do not correspond to it sufficiently to permit us to think about it at all."-P. W. Bridgeman "For, if one does not exist, he can by no means be mistaken. Therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Because, therefore, I am if

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    For years the Christian Right has warned that separation of church and state is eradicating Christianity from American life. In contrast, law professor Stephen Feldman warns that separation of church and state, in fact, subjugates minority faiths (especially the Jews) and ensures Christian cultural and political hegemony. "Significantly, in late-twentieth-century America," Feldman writes in Please

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    Man "is born without his own consent; his organization does in nowise depend upon himself; his ideas come to him involuntarily; his habits are in the power of those who cause him to contract them; he is unceasingly modified by causes, whether visible or concealed, over which he has no control. . . . He

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    Whatever its faults (the unreasonable trust in reason, the tendency toward a hypernaturalism, the unwarranted optimism in human progress, the "demythologization" of religion), the Enlight- enment worldview at least included the possibility of knowledge and of truth. The real was deemed rational and, hence, knowable by rational minds. Not only does reality exist, but we

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    "Almighty God hath created the mind free. . . ."-Thomas Jefferson "It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage, and such only, as he believes to be acceptable to him."-James Madison "We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being." -William O. Douglas "Political decisions must be

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    "Truth is what the majority thinks it is at any given moment precisely because the majority is permitted to govern and redefine its values constantly." – Robert Bork "Sooner orlater we all have to accept something as given, whether it is God, or logic, or a set of laws, or some other foundation of existence."

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