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To: Skooz
Washington was just as much a bullsh*** artist as Voltaire, huh?

No, Washington had nowhere near the talent of Voltaire. The only contemporary who did was Franklin.

I'm not saying Washington wasn't a Christian, I'm saying we don't know and can't know from the material that has come down to us just what his faith was.

So9

13 posted on 02/22/2006 8:59:49 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (" I am just going outside, and may be some time.")
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To: Servant of the 9
I'm saying we don't know and can't know from the material that has come down to us just what his faith was.

I would say the evidence is overwhelming.

15 posted on 02/22/2006 9:04:57 AM PST by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings............Modesty hides my thighs in her wings......)
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To: Servant of the 9

"I'm saying we don't know and can't know from the material that has come down to us just what his faith was."

No-one knows the heart of any man, but God.


20 posted on 02/22/2006 9:15:13 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: Servant of the 9
No, Washington had nowhere near the talent of Voltaire.

In my estimation, Washington's accomplishments far exceeded Voltaire's.

27 posted on 02/22/2006 9:38:51 AM PST by Logophile
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To: Servant of the 9
"I'm saying we don't know and can't know from the material that has come down to us just what his faith was."

..."Diary and Remembrances" of the Rev. Nathaniel Randolph Snowden, an ordained Presbyterian minister, graduate of Princeton with a degree from Dickinson College. The original is owned by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Mr. Snowden was born in Philadelphia January 17, 1770 and died November 12, 1851. His writings cover a period from youth to 1846. In his records may be found these observations, in Mr. Snowden's own handwriting: ...[snip]

Mr. Snowden, as if to emphasize the piety of Washington sets forth in his records that he often saw Washington, that he accompanied seventy other clergymen to visit him on the anniversary of his birth February 22, 1792. Then Mr. Snowden adds:

"I felt much impressed in his presence and reflected upon the hand and wonderful Providence of God in raising him up and qualifying him with so many rare qualities and virtues for the good of this country and the world. Washington was not only brave and talented, but a truly excellent and pious man of God and of prayer. He always retired before a battle and in any emergency for prayer and direction."

"When the army lay at Morristown, the Rev. Dr. Jones, administered the sacrament of ye Lord's supper. Washington came forward at ye head of all his officers and took his seat at ye 1st table, & took of ye bread and wine, the Symbols of Christ's broken body and shed blood, to do this in remembrance of ye L J C & thus professed himself a Christian & a disciple of the blessed Jesus."
USHistory.org

Cordially,

38 posted on 02/22/2006 10:31:48 AM PST by Diamond
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