Posts Tagged ‘ enlightenment ’

Tyranny, Violence and the State: What Steven Pinker Left Out

2010-10-01
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Tyranny, Violence and the State: What Steven Pinker Left Out

All totaled, neither the private-sector crime which government is largely responsible for promoting and causing or even the wars committed by governments upon the subjects of other governments come anywhere close to the crimes government is directly responsible for committing against its own citizens.... Without a doubt, the most dangerous presence to ever exist...

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Reason, Revelation Testify That Good Works Matter, by Steve Farrell

2008-01-17
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Reason, Revelation Testify That Good Works Matter, by Steve Farrell

Liberty Letters Quote of the Day: Benjamin Franklin, Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ Nothing could more perfectly express the optimism of Benjamin Franklin’s simplified form of Christian piety mixed with Enlightenment thinking than his affirmation of the harmony between prudence and benevolence: … for self-denial is never a duty or a...

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