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>>23362897
>This is part of why Catholics have never been at home in America.
As God intended. We free Americans need nothing of that superstitious European institution with her Platonic metaphysics.
The Calvinism of the founding Anglo-Americans and Dutch-American colonists and the secularized Anglicanism of the Founding Fathers are the foundation of the United States of America. America is founded on the rejection of the Catholic Church, the rejection of atheism, the rejection of ochlocracy, aristocracy, science, and thrift, all of which originated from the Reformed confessions.
Jefferson's rejection of classical metaphysics for a strictly secular, scientific system depends on the war the Reformed waged against the Catholic Church.
Anyone who lives in America should thank their local Dutch Reformed church.

>>23315597
All the replies mentioning the Greeks without qualification are wrong. Jefferson's nominalism depends on the rejection of classical metaphysics. Most of the classical philosophy he did embrace was from the Hellenistic ethics.
>The introduction of this new principle of representative democracy has rendered useless almost every thing written before on the structure of government: and in a great measure relieves our regret if the political writings of Aristotle, or of any other antient, have been lost, or are unfaithfully rendered or explained to us.
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0234

>>23266713
>As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing every thing rational in moral philosophy which Greece & Rome have left us. Epictetus indeed has given us what was good of the Stoics; all beyond, of their dogmas, being hypocrisy and grimace. their great crime was in their calumnies of Epicurus and misrepresentations of his doctrines: in which we lament to see the candid character of Cicero engaging as an accomplice. the merit of his philosophy is in the beauties of his style. diffuse, vapid, rhetorical, but enchanting. his prototype Plato, eloquent as himself, dealing out mysticisms incomprehensible to the human mind, has been deified by certain sects usurping the name of Christians; because, in his foggy conceptions, they found a basis of impenetrable darkness whereon to rear fabrications as delirious, of their own invention.
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0141-0001

>>23266761
Do Catholic Christcucks who say that Luther lead to abortion or whatever ever implicate Americans like Thomas Jefferson for throwing away the classical philosophies of Aristotle and Plato?
>The introduction of this new principle of representative democracy has rendered useless almost every thing written before on the structure of government: and in a great measure relieves our regret if the political writings of Aristotle, or of any other antient, have been lost, or are unfaithfully rendered or explained to us.
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0234

>>5900730
To a Christian an old atheist stayed quiet or burned on a stake.

The term "new atheist" is just a buzzword.

>>5005304
I am a kind of... So I am a lying snake, but I prefer peace.
>>5005306
It is a smokescreen.
>>5005311
>Words can mean whatever you want them to
>Bows