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To: jwalsh07
I never witnessed his private devotions. I never witnessed his private devotions. I should have thought it the greatest heresy to doubt his firm belief in Christianity. His life, his writings, prove that he was a Christian.

Even his own daughter "never witnessed his private devotions" and "never witnessed his private devotions." Do you not think that, if he were a Christian, she would have at least heard him speak about his Christianity, at least in passing? Do you not find it odd that he did not?

560 posted on 08/27/2003 10:03:43 PM PDT by RoughDobermann (Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: RoughDobermann
What I find odd is the amount of hubris it takes to claim that you know Washington better than a woman who spent 20 years of her life with him.

"To say that he [George Washington] was not a Christian would be to impeach his sincerity and honesty. Of all men in the world, Washington was certainly the last whom any one would charge with dissimulation or indirectness [hypocrisies and evasiveness]; and if he was so scrupulous in avoiding even a shadow of these faults in every known act of his life, [regardless of] however unimportant, is it likely, is it credible, that in a matter of the highest and most serious importance [his religious faith, that] he should practice through a long series of years a deliberate deception upon his friends and the public? It is neither credible nor possible." Jared Sparks

Did Sparks have an agenda or do you?

564 posted on 08/27/2003 10:12:09 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: RoughDobermann
She never witnessed his PRIVATE devotions. Now tell me, are there some things that you do privately that asren't witnessed by others?
604 posted on 08/28/2003 5:18:40 AM PDT by PleaseNoMore
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