The Nonexistence of Christian Political Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
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Those who lived by reason are Christians, even though they have been considered atheists: such as, among the Greeks, Socrates....
—Justin Martyr, The First Apology, ca. AD. 150
We live in a curious time. We are agreed that our educational and university system has been increasingly dominated for the past half century by a pseudoscientific philosophy that doubted on principle the validity of moral values. Our constitutional system is implemented through courts managed largely by a legal profession educated in such an amoral environment that any explicit value or religious criterion is practically precluded from being taught as true.
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