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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Kerry,
You do come up with some interesting and original ideas
I think you'd have to pursue the reverse of your statement--look at great minds who were also married men, and women. Luther, Calvin and the American, Jonathan Edwards, all come to mind as great minds who were married. Does that promote your argument?
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Well I certainly wouldn't put Luther and Calvin in the class of people who were in favor of free societies. (and I also wouldn't put Plato and Augustine in there either). In some ways, Calvin seems to me to be the quintessential patriarch in his murdering of Servetus. Granted, Luther and Calvin did the West a service by breaking from Roman Catholicism but it doesn't seem to me that it was done with any deliberate attempt at individual freedom.
Not sure about Jonathan Edwards.