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To: OWK; JMJ333
What I termed as "stunning" was your assertion that Judeo-Christianity served as the country's theological foundation...

JMJ333 has indeed been trying to convince me that:
1. There is such a a thing as 'Judeo-Christianity.'
2. Our nation's laws and constitution are based on it.

I contend that none of our founding fathers were Jews, so this 'Judeo-' thing is meaningless. I also contend that the Magna Carta, the works of Locke and Montesquieu, and the examples of the English Civil War and the Puritan theocracies were the primary influences on the Founding Fathers. The Bible, NT or OT, was not the foundation for any of the documents or structures of this nation.

If you care to pass the time by arguing about it, I'm game. But separated from any contemporary issue, it's just an intellectual sport. (Like those endless American Civil War debates).

171 posted on 02/05/2002 2:39:23 PM PST by Looking for Diogenes
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To: Looking for Diogenes
You're posting to OWK and yet still "Looking for Diogenes"?
172 posted on 02/05/2002 2:41:39 PM PST by Askel5
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To: Looking for Diogenes
What I termed as "stunning" was your assertion that Judeo-Christianity served as the country's theological foundation...

Note the underlined word in my message to JM333. I underlined the word "theological" for emphasis. Of course the Christian faith served as the nation's theological foundation. It was in fact, nearly the only theology in practice. But that (as you pointed out) has nothing whatsoever to do with the country's political foundation.

175 posted on 02/05/2002 2:47:07 PM PST by OWK
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To: Looking for Diogenes
I contend that none of our founding fathers were Jews, so this 'Judeo-' thing is meaningless.

Well, Alexander Hamilton's stepfather was Jewish. Another was financier Haym Solomon, who provided significant financial support to the Continental Congress and the war effort. South Carolina's Francis Salvador, the first identified Jew to be elected to an American colonial legislature, was the only Jew to serve in a revolutionary colonial congress and the first Jew to die for the cause of American liberty.

284 posted on 02/06/2002 7:02:21 AM PST by malakhi
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