Originally Posted By: goharley
Originally Posted By: bait dunker
First, in founding documents the refrence is always "God" or "Creator", never Christ.
God is almost exclusively used by the Christian faith...
Almost exclusively? Wow. So by you're own observation Christ is never mentioned, but Nature's God (a Deist reference) and Man's Creator (another Deist reference) are mentioned solely in the Declaration of Independence. There's also a mention of Devine Providence, yet another Deist reference. So how then do you make the leap to conclude this nation is founded on Christianity? From Glenn Beck? Oh, wait, he's Mormon. You do know the definition of Christianity, I presume. Is it simply because the founding fathers attended mass? They also brewed their own beer and distilled their own liquor; was this nation founded on alcohol as well? Franklin and others were known womanizers; was this nation founded on debauchery, too?


I think the whole problem with BD's understanding of this is that he doesn't know what deism is. Maybe instead of producing material on how and why the founding fathers were deists, I should have previously made a post about what deism is.


Edited by McMahon (10/21/10 10:08 PM)