"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> writes:
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<"Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
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<> "No one disputes the faith of our Founding Fathers. To speak of
<unalienable
<> Rights being endowed by a Creator certainly shows a sensitivity to our
<> spiritual selves. What is surprising is when fundamentalist Christians
<think
<> the Founding Fathers' faith had anything to do with the Bible. Without
<> exception, the faith of our Founding Fathers was deist, not theist. It was
<> best expressed earlier in the Declaration of Independence, when they spoke
<> of "the Laws of Nature" and of "Nature's God."
<> In a sermon of October 1831, Episcopalian minister Bird Wilson said,
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<> "Among all of our Presidents, from Washington downward, not one was a
<> professor of religion, at least not of more than Unitarianism."
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<Where does the idea come from that a president, Founding Forefather,
<Christian, bootlack, or nigger needs to be a "professor of religion" just to
<be a Christian? Or to be credible? Or to profess they are Christians?
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<This is STUPID.
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<Mr. Jefferson's POINT is that FOOLS like Bird Wilson WERE the problem with
<religion, or "Christianity". This was because they all wanted THEIR
<Christian church to be the NATIONAL church, which is the ONLY reason Mr.
<Jefferson wrote in a letter about the "wall of separation".
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Hammer! CAPS key! Quick, before it scuttles under the piano!
-- cary
