Comments on: Franklin and Emerson’s use of Religious Rhetoric http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Heidi http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-10832 Heidi Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:25:31 +0000 http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/#comment-10832 Orrrr...like that one couple I knew, the Angels, with the daughter named "Celestial." No joke. --end thread jack-- Orrrr…like that one couple I knew, the Angels, with the daughter named “Celestial.”

No joke.

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]]> By: Jared T http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-10831 Jared T Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:34 +0000 http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/#comment-10831 Ha! Ha!

]]> By: David G. http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-10826 David G. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:03:34 +0000 http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/#comment-10826 Or you could be like another perma here who named his kid Adam God ;) Or you could be like another perma here who named his kid Adam God ;)

]]> By: ideal name preemptor http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-10821 ideal name preemptor Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:42:30 +0000 http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/#comment-10821 Ralph Waldo Harris hyphen whatever would be a good second option :) Ralph Waldo Harris hyphen whatever would be a good second option :)

]]> By: Heidi http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/comment-page-1/#comment-10819 Heidi Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:30:43 +0000 http://www.juvenileinstructor.org/franklin-and-emersons-use-of-religious-rhetoric/#comment-10819 yeaaaah! I like these Emerson posts. Maybe we should have a subtitle here- "The Juvenile Instructor: Dispelling your Emersonian Mythologies." Anyway, I really did like this post and the analysis of Emerson's ideas about sin. Bravo for that "Circles" quote especially. I think that pretty much sums it up. I was also thinking about another quote...perhaps in Self-Reliance? I'd have to look it up, but to paraphase: "Evil is not the power opposite of Goodness, it is simply the absence of it." In this then, he REALLY denies the idea of sin, not just in his "hypertheism" and optimism of man, but by denying its very existence! (I love Emerson. I would name my firstborn "Emerson" but someone here already beat me to it...::mumblestanmumblemumble...murmur even::) yeaaaah! I like these Emerson posts. Maybe we should have a subtitle here- “The Juvenile Instructor: Dispelling your Emersonian Mythologies.”

Anyway, I really did like this post and the analysis of Emerson’s ideas about sin. Bravo for that “Circles” quote especially. I think that pretty much sums it up. I was also thinking about another quote…perhaps in Self-Reliance? I’d have to look it up, but to paraphase: “Evil is not the power opposite of Goodness, it is simply the absence of it.”

In this then, he REALLY denies the idea of sin, not just in his “hypertheism” and optimism of man, but by denying its very existence!

(I love Emerson. I would name my firstborn “Emerson” but someone here already beat me to it…::mumblestanmumblemumble…murmur even::)

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