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And yes I must say that I think it was and is the case that Thatcher's takes on "society" i.e. that there is no such thing, and on "education" i.e. devil take the hindmost, and on "penalism" i.e. "throw away the key, there is no redemption" were responsible for things being far worse then than they could and should have been.
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Nascent Christianity emerged as a rejection of Abrahamic absolutism, legalism, penalism, self-righteousness, vengeance and greed.
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Thomas Jefferson and America's revolutionary Fathers agreed with the first Christian because they had to confront the same absolutism, legalism, penalism, self-righteousness, vengeance and greed in the Old Testament Roman god being used to justify British colonialism.
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This can prepare us to offer some resistance to pan-penalism - the seemingly limitless expansion of the "penal question" as an instrument for the manufacture of consensus and the government of public opinion.
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