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Originally Posted by Show Me the Wire
Boy you guys have to make up your minds. You and actor cannot have it both ways Christians and deists. Deism is not the same as Christianity. Also, the majority were Free Masons, who believed the God of the universe is the Great Architect, not necessarily the Christian God. The founding Fathers were also products of the enlightenment, which is not friendly to Christianity.
The founders used the word Creator to refer to God. They gave freedom to worship God, not just freedom to worship the Christian God.
They also, clearly defined that man has inalienable (irrevocable) rights from their Creator and said that this truth is self-evident.
Actor has a problem with the Declaration because it implies a religious connotation. Well that is exactly what founding Fathers' meant. They stated man was created, with rights by a intelligent being with the power to create life. And they gave the freedom to worship this intelligent Creator being.
Of course the above is opposite of Actor's belief that life is accidental and without purpose. He is at odds with the founding principle of the United States. It looks like you are too.
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That's funny. The founding fathers are probably rolling in their graves over what has become of their "founding principles" in a mere 241 years...and you are pounding your chest because you are so impressed by those same "founding principles". A bunch of slave-owners who got together to discuss "Life...Liberty...and the pursuit of Happiness".
Your kids are being taught EVOLUTION in school, SMTW...and you are blaming the ATHEISTS for their "purposeless life-view". "Religion" has become the "Big Hypocrisy"...don't you see that? "Do as I say, and not as I do"...is the most "truthful" religious slogan.
