My feelings are further complicated because I find the idea of ignoring the Christian nature of drafters equally difficult. Indeed, my personal feeling is that while we from our vantage of history would view these as a most non-diverse group of European Christian men from the same general socio-economic class, they viewed themselves as wildly diverse, drawing from religions and backgrounds that were often at war or legally suppressed in their native lands. The result was a structure designed to accommodate diversity of views, one which expanded as our notions of diversity expanded to include those things that would have seemed so utterly ridiculous to the founders (such as the equality of people regardless of sex or color) that they saw no reason to mention them.
Link Harvest: How Christian Were The Founders?
My feelings are further complicated because I find the idea of ignoring the Christian nature of drafters equally difficult. Indeed, my personal feeling is that while we from our vantage of history would view these as a most non-diverse group of European Christian men from the same general socio-economic class, they viewed themselves as wildly diverse, drawing from religions and backgrounds that were often at war or legally suppressed in their native lands. The result was a structure designed to accommodate diversity of views, one which expanded as our notions of diversity expanded to include those things that would have seemed so utterly ridiculous to the founders (such as the equality of people regardless of sex or color) that they saw no reason to mention them.
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Link Harvest: Middle Class Question and Answer
I forget how I stumbled on this old piece, but it is remarkable for the way it frames its question and how it answers the question.…
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Links re: Pai + FCC
http://prospect.org/article/decoding-doublespeak-fcc-chairman-pai…
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How My Brain Works, An Example
Here is an example of how my brain processes differently from most other people and why my status updates and posts usually need to end up so long.…
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