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Well then, perhaps you need to educate yourself on it. This should give you some basic background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_evolution Now this thread is about Postsecularism, not Darwinism.

Yes that's certainly wonderful and necessary in terms of empirical study. However in concerning issues of ultimate truth, it's a poor substitute for philosophy or even religion - which deals with eternal truths. Do you even know anything about Theistic Evolution?

No - Postsecularism deals more with issues related to sociology. Most Christian demoninations are not "Creationists", but adhere to what is called "Theistic Evolution" which as the name implies is a theistic interpretation of the evolutionary process. Although it may interest you to know...

Pietism was a prevelant religious movement of the time, at least in Europe. America had its own counterparts in the Great Awakening, but these aren't considered "Pietist" per se.

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Here - knock yourself out: http://www.ccel.org/ BTW, Pascal's wager isn't about God's existence, not per se.

You're quite wrong. Pietism shares very little in the way of Medieval religiousity. BTW, the Enlightenment was a development of liberal Calvinism.

I'm quite surprised you despise the Age of Enlightenment Krump. Well that's more a Medieval thing, ala St. Bernard.

Actually that would be quite a step up in many ways.

Debate and strategy games are good ways.

But how long can that be maintained? Even Machiavelli noted the importance of maintaining public support in regards to the survival of any political system, hence why he actually was in favour of republican forms of government(not monarchy, contrary to popular myth).

For only so long, untill the apparent lack of support from the populace becomes clear. This somewhat gets into Tocquveille's discussion about why revolutions are rare in democracies.

Faith in God certainly can be misused as a crutch. But a misuse of faith doesn't mean it's a crutch by its very nature. Faith is also a source of personal strength. So theres the paradox. He certainly helps show what I'm talking about. BTW, he was also harshly critical of the manner in which...

No cause I never claimed to be arguing for God's existence in this debate.