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Book Discussion: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Our May book will be Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Book summary: In a tiny cafe where time travel is possible under strict rules, customers revisit pivotal moments they can't quite change.
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, cont'd
This will be our last meeting on *Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic*, by Matthew Stewart. For this meeting, please read the last two chapters:
Chapter 7: The Empire of Reason
Chapter 8: The Religion of Freedom
**Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy?**
America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s revolutionaries drew their inspiration. In the writings of Spinoza, Lucretius, and other great philosophers, Stewart recovers the true meanings of “Nature’s God,” “the pursuit of happiness,” and the radical political theory with which the American experiment in self-government began.
[LINK](https://a.co/d/bkTWJNb)
I recommend using an AI tool like ChatGPT to ask these questions:
1. What does Matthew Stewart say about the empire of reason in his book Nature's God?
2. What does Matthew Stewart say about the religion of freedom?
I hope to see you there!
Fred
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