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Illiad +anyone else.... | by tesla_koil | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
| Just because... |
by nelzie |
2004-03-17 08:52:10 |
...certain 'Christian' principles of free choice and moral responsibility happen to align with the Constitution doesn't mean that the Constituion has anything to do with Christianity.
Your argument can just as easily state...
"I say the Constitution is built upon Islamic principles of free choice and individual moral responsibility..."
or...
"I say the Constitution is built upon Jewish principles of free choice and individual moral responsibility..."
or...
"I say the Constitution is built upon Deist principles of free choice and individual moral responsibility..."
or...
"I say the Constitution is built upon Unitarian principles of free choice and individual moral responsibility..."
My argument yesterday, if you are referring to my posting... Was not that the Founding Fathers weren't religious, because they were. My argument was that they weren't Christian, as in followers of Christ. A person can speak the English language, as our Forefathers did, venerate God publicly and not be following Christianity, Judiasm or Islam and instead be speaking from a Deist or Unitarian viewpoint, as many of the Founding Fathers did indeed have at the time of the creation of this Nation.
As was shown on some of the web-sites linked and as is shown historically, the Puritans, undeniably devote Christians, wanted to institute a Christian Dictatorship as the form of government for this nation. How different would that have been?
Not knowing all of the specifics, but I will, right at this moment, assume that perhaps the Puritans made a number of loud public statements exalting their interest in pushing Biblican law upon the new country and that due to this, the rest of the Founding Fathers made a number of Anti-Christianity/Bible statements as well as pro-Deism/Unitarian statements. |
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