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The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay

Sovereign Nations

CHAPTER

The Church Is the Fruit of Reason

The American experiment is the thing I mean by the word liberal. Liberalism rests at its very bottom on a very parsimonious answer to the question of what's going on here. The Bill of Rights follows immediately from this conception, especially what I was just talking about. We're protecting free speech, belief, assembly, et cetera. It tumbles out of this assumption that we cannot be Gnostics and it's always subjected to plurality.

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