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To: Matchett-PI

Why does the list of religious affiliation posted by kabar differ from the list posted by you? There are many more lists that could be posted that differ from the two posted by you and kabar.

There is no historical documentation that factually lists these men by religious affiliation and for good reason. In colonial times your religion was the religion of the colony you lived in. Most of the states at the time of the Constitutional Convention, did not allow confessed Deists to hold public office.

Among our founders was a famous Jew and a famous Atheist, yet you don't see a Jew or an Atheist on the list. That was changed by the separation of church and state. Do you really believe that separation of church and state would have been overwhelmingly supported if all those guys were Christian and wanted a Christian America?
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23 posted on 05/30/2005 2:34:59 PM PDT by mugs99
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To: mugs99

Self-deception is the worst. LOL


25 posted on 05/30/2005 3:15:19 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Bad news for atheists: Postmoderns reject all meta-narratives including macro-evolution. LOL)
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To: mugs99
Most of the states at the time of the Constitutional Convention, did not allow confessed Deists to hold public office.

If it had been the intent of the founders to fully seperate church & state, don't you think they would have addressed that in the Federal Constitution, instead of leaving that power to the states?

In colonial times your religion was the religion of the colony you lived in.

Not true.

That was changed by the separation of church and state.

However did that happen, when most of the states had official state churches at the time of the founding?

Do you really believe that separation of church and state would have been overwhelmingly supported if all those guys were Christian and wanted a Christian America?

It takes someone with no understanding of the Christian faith to make that statement. You are confusing "Christian state", national, with "Christian state", as in states, based on the "community standards" of each of the states.

65 posted on 06/02/2005 11:43:18 PM PDT by GoLightly
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