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To: DJ MacWoW
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I believe the seal depicted here was eventually adopted by Ben Franklin for his personal use. Pretty interesting imagery for an "atheist". A burning bush, Moses leading the Israelites, the pharaoh's soldiers drowning in the sea...
17 posted on 07/03/2010 8:27:54 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
Pretty interesting imagery for an "atheist".

It is. But we know that the left has an agenda that has nothing to do with truth and reality. God stands in the way of their plans. So does anyone who believes in Him. Including the Founders.

18 posted on 07/03/2010 8:30:01 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: cripplecreek
We know that Franklins statement :The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle is based on Scripture. Faith is the act of believing without proof.

The "quote" from Jefferson was indeed hacked. It is from a letter to Thomas Cooper in 1814. In the letter Jefferson talks about Common Law and Christianity. It is very long and atheists picked ONE line out of many. Normal behaviour to pluck something out of context. They are discussing the history of English law.

Letter to Thomas Cooper

If, therefore, from the settlement of the Saxons to the introduction of Christianity among them, that system of religion could not be a part of the common law, because they were not yet Christians, and if, having their laws from that period to the close of the common law, we are all able to find among them no such act of adoption, we may safely affirm (though contradicted by all the judges and writers on earth) that Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

23 posted on 07/03/2010 10:23:14 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: cripplecreek
Franklins autobiography is online. On the first page he says: And now I speak of thanking God, I desire with all humility to acknowledge that I owe the mentioned happiness of my past life to His kind providence, which lead me to the means I used and gave them success. My belief of this induces me to hope, though I must not presume, that the same goodness will still be exercised toward me, in continuing that happiness, or enabling me to bear a fatal reverse, which I may experience as others have done: the complexion of my future fortune being known to Him only in whose power it is to bless to us even our afflictions.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

25 posted on 07/03/2010 11:27:11 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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