[MD] Theocracy, Secularism, and Democracy

[David Thomas]

Marsha,

> I'm not getting your indignation...

That's because I'm not indignant. What you believe is what you believe.

Your original post says:

> You criticize Bo's point-of-view, yet from your other post you talk about
> human animals and the evolution.  The MoQ is not about human
> animals, but static patterns of value, and the evolution that the MoQ
> references is the evolution of static patterns of value.

If I had to characterize a philosophical POV that is closest to mine it
would be pragmatic philosophical realism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism

Somewhere that I can't find right now I believe that Pirsig suggested that
the MoQ subscribes to some form of realism. Your statement "The MoQ is not
about human animals" denies the most basic claims of philosophical realism.
So your views of reality, and the MoQ, and mine share so little common
ground that any discussion would be more like a discussion of religion, than
philosophy.

That is all that I was trying to convey.

Dave