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To: Matchett-PI
I provided you with the link to just about every single primary document that is available on line ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE (500 B.C.-1800 A.D.):
The American Colonist's Library - A Treasury of Primary Documents - Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History


This is a religious website that mixes fact and fiction. Truth is, I like the site it has some real treasures but...It loses credibility by including bogus documents as fact. It is woefully short on primary documents that do not support Christian dogma. Its bias glares like a neon sign. I'll give you one example of many. The website states the the Constitutional Convention of 1787 began with prayers at the suggestion of Benjamin Franklin. While it's true that Franklin did suggest they start with prayer, his suggestion was rejected and the convention went on without prayer.

Like another? They have George Washington's Prayer Journal published on the website. Washington's journal was exposed as a fraud the very day it was first published. It is a standard Episcopalian prayer book and is not in Washington's handwriting. The signature does not even resemble George Washingtons. All scholars know this and no legitimate historian would attempt to publish this as the real thing. There are many more like this on the site.

I'll even give you another link for good measure:
This is the same webpage as above on a different server.

George Bancroft, the American historian

His dad, the Calvinist minister Aaron Bancroft, was the president of the Unitarian Association from 1783 until the separation of church and state allowed the association to become the Unitarian Church.

Nobody could be as clueless as you want me to believe you are -- could they?

Clueless I may be, but gullible I'm not.
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191 posted on 05/30/2005 8:27:05 PM PDT by mugs99
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To: mugs99
"Clueless I may be, but gullible I'm not."

There are none so gullible as those who fall for their own supression of self-evident truth. [Rom.1:18-32]

Here's a clue: Self-deceivers have no excuse.

193 posted on 05/30/2005 8:40:28 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Bad news for atheists: Postmoderns reject all meta-narratives including macro-evolution. LOL)
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