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To: Ron who wrote (255061)	7/5/2014 11:16:23 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 542114

Yes, the founding fathers were intellectuals, and the fact of the matter is, there wasn't much big thinking out there until you hit the ancient Greeks. Here and there a bit, but nothing to match the pure power of the ancient Greeks. Almost seems impossible they ever existed given all we know about human history. When Einstein was asked who was his god, he said : "my god is Spinoza's god". LIke I said: Einstein was an atheist (so were the ancient Greeks, more or less). latimes.com <<Rooted in the philosophy of Epicurus, who saw happiness as the highest good, this tradition flowered in the 17th century to produce wide-ranging inquiries into the nature of God, humanity, religion and society that got Benedict de Spinoza labeled "the atheist Jew." Meanwhile, the more circumspect John Locke (careful to mask his iconoclasm with boilerplate declarations of conventional piety) ended up praised by historians as "the single greatest intellectual influence on America's revolutionaries."

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