[LarryLied]

Unitarian/Universalists today certainly can be called deists. But in Channing's time it was different. Jefferson, John and John Quincy Adams and other Unitarians did not believe in some vague God. They believed in the God of the Bible, their faith came out of the Anglican, Congregationalist and Presbyterian traditions. They dissented on doctrine, they didn't create a faith out of whole cloth. No doubt they were heretics but they were Christian heretics :-)

[betty boop]

No doubt they were heretics but they were Christian heretics :-)

LOL LarryLied, I certainly won't dispute that point. :^) In the end, Unitarians and Trinitarians all hold with the Christian moral philosophy (or have until quite recent times, at least). And that's the main thing, from the standpoint of the American Founding. Thanks for the clarification. best, bb.