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To: RoughDobermann
...but Christianity was the Founder's raison d'etre>>>> Not of all them. Some would argue not even a majority of them...

LOL! What a load of codswallop. You guys make me laugh. The Founders' Christianity was the very core of their being. I'm not even going to bother posting the countless references to prove that. Go buy a biography of Washington.

You bunch of naysayers remind me of the old Soviet bureaucracy, who used to try and erase the history of their own founders, when new ideology made the latter unpersons.

478 posted on 08/27/2003 5:40:20 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/popup2.html)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie
The Founders' Christianity was the very core of their being. I'm not even going to bother posting the countless references to prove that. Go buy a biography of Washington.

"George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion. When John Murray (a universalist who denied the existence of hell) was invited to become an army chaplain, the other chaplains petitioned Washington for his dismissal. Instead, Washington gave him the appointment. On his deathbed, Washinton uttered no words of a religious nature and did not call for a clergyman to be in attendance." From: George Washington and Religion by Paul F. Boller Jr., pp. 16, 87, 88, 108, 113, 121, 127 (1963, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX)

I don't blame you for not wanting to post any references...

488 posted on 08/27/2003 6:56:58 PM PDT by RoughDobermann (Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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