Then how do you explain the quotations in private letters, by the said Founding Fathers? I’ve listed them above.
Feel free to review and reply.
You can twist and misrepresent what the Founding Fathers said all you want, but we know better about what they intended for the founding of this country than you do.
There have been plenty of other quotes posted here that prove you wrong.
You are not going to convince us otherwise. You are not going to destroy this country by casting doubts about the foundations it’s built on because we know better, any more than you’re going to turn people to atheist my casting dispersions on God and religion.
The only explanation for your attacks are that they are only for the purpose of destroying our faith and our country trying to undermine the confidence that we have in our country and form of government and basis of government. It’s not going to work.
Narses has already asked why you are here, what you are trying to accomplish, and what your previous screenname was, and you have obviously ignored every one of those questions.
Your posting history demonstrates that you are nothing but a troll and you’ve been called on it.
Several of your letters are merely examples of typical anti-Catholic bigotry, which was common among Protestants of that time. The one by Rev. Bird Wilson is merely his opinion. Probably you could find some equally strange quotes from Jerry Falwell, if you looked. And the others, for the most part, can be explained as aberrations or exaggerations, or stages through which the writers passed.
Jefferson may have been a Deist, although some of his writings suggest he was also a broad Christian. Ben Franklin may have been an atheist, or as I said, an agnostic. He seems to have been involved with the Hellfire Club when he was in England, although that could have just been an instance of sinning.
I am familiar with “natural law” theory among the early Greeks and Romans, and in fact it was not the same thing as what was passed down later and adopted into common law, although the Greeks and Romans certainly contributed to it.
So. If I looked around, no doubt I could find some texts stating that the earth was flat, but that wouldn’t really prove anything, taken out of context.