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Denis Diderot's Ideas Lie At the Base of Modern Western Civilization

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

craigshields Posted in Renewables - Politics

Last Friday was the birthday of French philosopher Denis Diderot, who said, “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Holy cow, that’s some powerful language. It appears to summarize …

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Tagged with: Denis Diderot, French philosophers, French Revolution, Islam, Muslim world, separation of church and state, The Enlightenment, theocracy political paradigm, U.S. Constitution, zeitgeist of the late Eighteenth Century

Science Under Attack

Posted on January 5, 2011 by

Craig Shields Posted in Uncategorized

I’ve gotten a great number of fascinating comments on my piece on science’s coming under attack from politics and religion, for example: Like you, I am worried about the religious campaign to undo hundreds of years of scientific development. Unfortunately, …

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Tagged with: 18th Century, American Revolution, Enlightenment, French Revolution, politics, religion, science