[Grovenet] Lies ....... lies.... by the liberals

[Allen Warren]

Thanks for providing the link, Jeff.  It was good reading.  And I'm not surprised by what I read though I'm guessing Christians have and will continue to attack the deism notion as blasphemy and lies.
 
Allen Warren


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From: Jeff Howden <admin at jeffhowden.com>
To: Forest Grove local interests list <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:48:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Lies ....... lies.... by the liberals

> From: Allen Warren
> 
> The United States of America was founded by men wanting to
> have Freedom of Choice: freedom in worship, freedom from
> unfair taxation and freedom from the tyranny of the English
> Crown.  Our Founding Fathers did seek Divine Providence,
> but they were by no means without Vice.  Ben Franklin, as
> an example, was quite the bawdy fellow who had numerous
> mistresses throughout his life, a truth continuously
> suppressed at it wasn't in good keeping with the ideal
> Christian we believed all of our Founding Fathers to be. 
> And let's not forget how most, if not all, our Founding
> Fathers owned Slaves.  Also remember that Thomas Jefferson
> had children by one of his Slaves.  Our Founding Fathers
> definitely weren't pillars of Morality.

Our founding fathers by no stretch of the definition were what we'd call
christians today.  In fact, they were deists, not theists.

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/farrell_till/myth.html

By the very core beliefs of deism we know they did not and would not seek
divine providence.  Doing so would be completely contrary to their belief
that the supreme being, maker of the universe had not only removed himself
entirely, but intentionally assumed no control or exerted any influence in
the happenings, let alone communicate to the followers on earth should they
bend a knee in prayer to seek revelation.

Do not perpetuate the lies and twisting of history that modern christianity
would prefer.

Jeff


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