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To: Pharmboy

I don't need to burn the internet up to find the quotes. They are readily available in many trustworthy archives. I understand where you are coming from, but you ignore the volumes of evidence that he was devout. He was certainly a very private man, and didn't constantly claim to be a Christian. There are many Freemasons that were/are also Christians.


128 posted on 11/29/2004 12:51:28 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant
as I said:

He kept (almost) all of his letters; his journals and diaries and papers add up to 33 large voumes. In NONE of his writing are there devotional messages of the type characterized in the "Prayer Journal" that you would have us believe he wrote (as in your first post on this matter).

The best evidence is that he was a Christian of the Deist variety who believed that Church attendance was a good thing. He was much more a Son of the Enlightenment (his Freemasonry is evidence for that) than a Born Again Christian. I can't remember him EVER mentioning Jesus or Christ in any of his writings.

I stand by that. What I said is that he was more "devout" when it came to Freemasonry which is certainly not incompatible with Christianity. And again, show me ONE quote of the general where he uses Jesus Christ in a sentence. He was a Christian, just not a devout one by today's standards.

We shall have to agree to disagree.

147 posted on 11/29/2004 1:19:32 PM PST by Pharmboy (Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
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