I wish you would give citations so I can find those in context, since according to Adam "the general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity." I know where that quote came from (and I linked it). So you can not divorce Christianity from the Founding of this nation.
Tass, are you being deceptive on purpose? Where did Jefferson borrow the term "nature's God" from? Where did they get the idea that rights came from God? And no the DoI references God three times:
THAT WAS NOT MY POINT TASS.Why would these Christian hating Founders, these so called Deists, use tax monies to print and distribute bibles, institute the chaplain service, impose Christian morality on the Navy and Army, us tax monies to evangelize Indians, call for national days of thanksgiving invoking, not only the God of the Bible, but Jesus Christ specifically?
Tass, are you being deceptive on purpose? Where did Jefferson borrow the term "nature's God" from? Where did they get the idea that rights came from God? And no the DoI references God three times:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ith a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ith a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor
The members of the Continental Congresses did a lot that was subsequently invalidated by the purely secular Constitution which superseded them...as has been demonstrated by the rulings of the SCOTUS when challenged.
especially those with things of substance to contribute such as Shunya.
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