RE: Australian High Court rules against public school chaplains
July 13, 2012 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2012 at 10:29 pm by Skepsis.)
(July 13, 2012 at 9:25 pm)Polaris Wrote: Democracy protecting the rights of the minorities as a defining feature? LOL no. Democracy is all about majority rule....Democratic Socialism (almost said socialism, but that would bring up the Fascists as well) protects the minorities.
I don't know about Australia, but in America the constitution revolves around majority rule and protecting the rights of the minority.
These are distinguishing and primary features that have allowed America to survive for so long.
We aren't a country of objectivist, Lassez-faire capitalists, ut we aren't socialistic either.
Regardless, we aren't talking about the fiscal protection of minorities, but rather the rights of minorities.
My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to wish that they were true.
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell
Man, in so far as he is not subject to natural forces, is free to work out his own destiny. The responsibility is his, and so is the opportunity.
-Bertrand Russell