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To: MyTwoCopperCoins

That’s a whole lot of Thomas Jefferson and not much else. We all know Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian. He claimed to be a Deist, so far as I know. At any rate the vast majority of the signers of the Declaration were Christians indeed.


169 posted on 06/29/2009 1:46:26 AM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: Marie2

Thomas Jefferson and Adams.

That said, the Founding Fathers, the Framers of the Constitution and other prominent American politicians who were Deists and thereby not Christian, include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, Gouverneur Morris, Hugh Williamson, James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Ethan Allen, Thomas Paine, Elihu Palmer, and to an extent, George Washington himself.

Other than these, did the rest really matter much? Also remember, the vast majority of the Christian population was kept out of the electoral system through the requirement that voters hold estate and have income.

I’ll just give you something to think about. Imagine a presidential candidate today, who could make any of the statements that I had posted of Jefferson and Adams, during campaigning, today. He or she wouldn’t last a day. That’s how far this country has fallen, where candidates can feign religious belief to fool the idiot masses.

Look at Obama. Christian, he says he is!


172 posted on 06/29/2009 5:16:28 AM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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