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To: knowshon
Well, as someone said in the first panel, I could do w/o the inter-religion backbiting; but, with that said, the Founding of this great country was done with a background of religion. Almost all the signers were Christians (of the 56, one Catholic, most were Episcopal (COE) and Presbyterians, with Anabaptists, Quakers and Reformed also present. As far as I know, there was only one character who played a role in the Founding who was an anti-religious atheist: Tom Paine.

The rest were believers, Christians, who acted like Christians and opened this country to all (even to my ignorant Jewish grandfather who cam here in 1892).

God bless the Founders.

118 posted on 02/27/2010 9:14:04 AM PST by Pharmboy (The Stone Age did not end because they ran out of stones...)
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To: Pharmboy

After reading some of Tom Paine’s writings, I think he could probably get himself banned from FR on a crevo thread if he were alive today.


128 posted on 02/27/2010 9:58:45 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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