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PART II - http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1521

PART III - http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1521

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PART III - http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1526 Ooops.

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http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?page=proframe&prod_id=1119834

cheapest I can find it online (used www.pricegrabber.com) - for folks who want to read it.

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Most excellent post. A review of Modern philosophers (1650-1850) will lead a person to agree with DeMarco.

Rene Descartes: "It is absolutely true that we must believe that there is a God" (Meditations, Introduction).

Thomas Hobbes: "Culture" comes "from two sorts of men. One sort" orders culture "to their own invention. The other have done it by God's commandment and direction" and by "our blessed Savior" (Leviathan, c. 12).

Blaise Pascal: "All who seek God without Jesus Christ either find no light to satify them (atheism) or come to form for themselves a means of knowing God (deism; Ayn Rand exactly)" (Pensees, no. 555).

John Locke (who greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson): All "men are the workmanship of one omnipotent and infintely wise Maker" (An Essay Concerning Government, c. 2).

Gottfried Leibniz: "God is considered the architect of the machine of the universe" (Monadology, n. 87).

If you look again at the 15 architects listed by DeMarco, you will see 15 brilliant people who lacked the warmth, hope and logic of Descartes, Hobbes, Pascal, Liebniz, Locke as well as Spinoza, Berkeley (yes, the university town was named after Bishop Berkeley), and Kant - philosophers who greatly influenced the Founding Fathers of the United States