[Peace-discuss] Ibn Khaldun - 14th century Tea Party Guy

[C. G. Estabrook]

Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> These seem like simplistic soundbites (like the 10 commandments). 

That's a view about as well-informed as one that would regard Hamlet as a 
soap-opera, or the Iliad as a script for an action movie...

Forgive me for offering a piece of my own as an alternative reading:

	March 29, 2005
	Anarchism Against the Laws of Kings
	The Subversive Commandments
	
"...the Ten Commandments in their historical setting are a revolutionary 
manifesto, dedicated to the overthrow of traditional authority and religion...

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