"Cary Kittrell" <cary at afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
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: "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> writes:
: <
: <"Shadow Dancer" <insomniac at winterslight.org> wrote in message
: <news:ajckpr$19kljn$1 at ID-150265.news.dfncis.de...: <>
: <> "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,
: <>
: <> "Among all of our Presidents, from Washington downward, not one was a
: <> professor of religion, at least not of more than Unitarianism."
: <
: <
: <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?
: <
: <This is STUPID.
: <
: <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".
: <
:: Hammer! CAPS key! Quick, before it scuttles under the piano!
I have a net handy..
blu
::: -- cary
