Religion

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Natural law was the basis for the core ideas of the Revolution: People are free and equal in nature. Government is a compact between human beings, not something handed down from above.

Most important, we must always have the liberty of thought to examine received wisdom, evaluate its utility, and change our ideas — and our institutions.

In particular this part:

People are free and equal in nature.

Got a chuckle from this:

"Jefferson's vision for the future of American religion … featured nothing but Unitarian churches from sea to shining sea."

A better America than one divided into various cults with their supporters and enemies. Very close to what I grew up with.

From the first Amazon review, but all of them are very good:

“Splendid… imaginative but never fanciful, even at its most surprising. What lends Nature’s God a good deal of its verve is Matthew Stewart’s unabashed attachment not only to the revolutionaries as they really were but to the skeptical rationalism they embodied. This is partisan scholarship as it should be written, and much needed service to the public.” (Alan Ryan, author of The Making of Modern Liberalism)

http://www.amazon.com/Natures-God-Heretical-American-Republic/dp/0393064549/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1404062887&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=Nature%27s+God%3A+The+Heretical+Origins+of+the+American+Republic

Thanks for posting this. I'm also interested in on of his other books listed below the Amazon page on Nature's God...

The Management Myth: Debunking Modern Business Philosophy

"Here he (Matthew Stewart) brilliantly sets about unpicking the central tenets of management thinking... Elegant hatchet job on the management consultancy industry and the damage it's done." Director CNBC Business

"Business Schools turning out MBA graduates are big business, and they are not going to love Stewart, whose thesis is that 'the modern idea of management is right enough to be dangerously wrong'...serious and valuable polemic." The Times - The Wall Street Journal.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Management-Myth-Debunking-Philosophy/dp/0393338525/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1KS89TEB0G5GE70S6Y3F

Randian business methodolgy needs to be rooted out. At one time we had true community oriented business models (not the faux ones to deceive us) that gave us stability and business owners who were accountable to more than just their shareholders.

The Supreme Court and the conservatives are trying to write the most regressive practices in stone and destabilizing the USA. It's going to be a long haul to reverse this and it starts NOW in 2014 to put the reactionaries out of office. Or we're done.