Posted on 07/07/2017 11:32:16 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
I can’t bring the names to mind at the moment, but I believe several people in England — contemporaries of Burke, but not Burke himself — were not religious, yet still pushed for the essential value of morality based on the Bible.
As did Unitarians (who too soon kind of turned Harvard into its Vatican ), but even the non religious were deists of some sort.
Joshua Charles, New York Times bestselling author and researcher at the Museum of the Bible, explains.
What were the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers of the United States?
There's been a lot of controversy surrounding this subject. But there shouldn't be.
Because of their prominence, I will discuss George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin—our nation’s first three Presidents, and the man referred to as “the
First American”—all of whom, even if some did not individually adhere to orthodox Christianity, were steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Here’s what we can say for certain about their religious beliefs.
1) All of the Founders believed in a transcendent God, that is, a Creator who exists outside of nature.
2) All the Founders believed in a God who imposes moral obligations on human beings.
3) All the Founders believed in a God who punishes bad behavior and rewards good behavior in an afterlife.
The notion that any of the Founders believed in an impersonal deity who merely created the universe and then left it to itself is false. All of them believed in a God who, as Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention, “governs in the affairs of men.”
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The point is to destroy culture by not having culture.
It is the culture, the cultures, that are the root of evils and that must be destroyed.
In capitalism a person can own his own business his own house his own property. In socialism only 1 owner the government as in single payer(that's why democrats push so hard for government healthcare etc.).
In America 86% of millionaires started out poor ,proof:
http://www.thomasjstanley.com/2014/05/america-where-millionaires-are-self-made/
This what liberals/democrats hate the most that a person can make it on his own , make his own way and not need government. They hate that when you have money and wealth you can have freedom because then you can do what you want to when you want to and own and buy anything you want to that is produced in the market.
If you have a million dolllars or 10 you don't need government , you don't need politicians and you are truly free. So capitalism is the only way that you can make your own way and have freedom. And liberals /democrats hate hate freedom . democrats want you all enslaved to govefrnnent and them.
Sorry, the enlightenment gave us the FRENCH Revolution with the terror and the totalitarian Empire.
Trump nailed it without God you have tyranny.
The measure of man IS NOT man, it is God’s Holy Law.
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