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To: Poe White Trash

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30 posted on 11/22/2009 2:54:24 AM PST by Jacquerie (It is only in the context of Natural Law that the Declaration & Constitution form a coherent whole.)
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To: Jacquerie
Yah, I did. You care to address directly any of the points I've made on this thread?

In general, I don't see how reducing the Revealed Word of my Lord and Master Jesus Christ to a mere instrument for regulating the passions of U.S. citizens shows either proper worship to Him or the seriousness needed to address the problems which beset our nation.

P.S. I don't think that Petrarch and Samuel Adams have the same idea of "virtue." Think about it. It's also puzzling that the author does not take into account the influence of Roman history, and Latin notions of virtue, upon our Founding Fathers.

P.P.S. John Adams' kind words for Lord Bolingbroke, Hume and Gibbon as a source of "general principles of Christianity" help to prove my point about the deistic tenor of the author's position. "Religious" men in the 18th and 19th centuries -- i.e., in the American context, men both Christian and Protestant -- considered these gentlemen to be quite suspicious, and Deists if not Infidels. Hardly an uncontroversial source for a set of General Principles that we would dare to call Christian.

P.P.P.S. I am not LDS and do not believe in the revealed nature of the Book of Mormon, but I appreciate the author's discussion of God's Providence in the "Religious Addendum." I wonder what the essay would have looked like had he used the Addendum as his starting point instead of making it look somewhat extraneous.

31 posted on 11/22/2009 7:11:45 AM PST by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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