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To: Para-Ord.45

Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists.


4 posted on 05/29/2005 4:03:12 PM PDT by clyde asbury (Exhuming McCarthy)
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To: clyde asbury

Define "most" please. As in a majority?


7 posted on 05/29/2005 4:05:41 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: clyde asbury
Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists.

Makes my head spin with conspiracy and secret societies.

8 posted on 05/29/2005 4:05:55 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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Jefferson was actually a gnostic Christian- he viewed Jesus as a philosopher. You might call his a Deist, though. And Franklin was a Christian.



12 posted on 05/29/2005 4:10:25 PM PDT by LauraleeBraswell (I will never again read another thing by Christopher Hitchens!)
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To: clyde asbury

If our founding fathers were deists, they weren't very strong ones. They attended church services, granted permission for gov't buildings to be used as churches, read the Bible, prayed, believed in heaven and hell, and much of their writing indicates they believed God does have a somewhat active role in worldy affairs. These are all things that are contrary to deist beliefs.


21 posted on 05/29/2005 4:16:24 PM PDT by RedTail
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To: clyde asbury
Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists.

utter nonsense promoted by modern day atheists.

BTW: The people most responsible for thr Bill of Rights being included in the US Constitution were the Baptists and men like Baptist preacher John Leland who forced James Madison to commit to the BoR and Patrick Henry and Jefferson were both sympathetic to the cause of the Baptists and their quest for religious liberty and freedom from State religion.

48 posted on 05/29/2005 4:34:05 PM PDT by Mark Felton (The secret of happiness is freedom/The secret of freedom is courage/ The secret of courage is Christ)
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To: clyde asbury

ANd most modern Americans who spout that crap don't understand Deism -and do not know American History.


65 posted on 05/29/2005 4:46:41 PM PDT by StonyBurk
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To: clyde asbury

That simply isn't true, of the founding fathers that signed the declaration only a handful were possibly deists. That is bad history they teach in our public schools. The "common man" that went to war for our freedoms were God fearing men, Christians.


73 posted on 05/29/2005 4:53:03 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: clyde asbury
"Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists."

"Some" not "many"

110 posted on 05/29/2005 5:40:21 PM PDT by cookcounty ("We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts" ---Abe Lincoln, 1858.)
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To: clyde asbury
Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists.

No, most were Christians.

128 posted on 05/29/2005 8:53:16 PM PDT by Hacksaw (Real men don't buy their firewood.)
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To: clyde asbury
[ Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists. ]

Two percent of the the 100 founding fathers were Deists..
(for the cypher impaired)->> like two(2) II, dos ..

161 posted on 05/30/2005 11:43:26 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed by me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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