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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (70331)	1/3/2000 10:56:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

I think you will find more pious, churchly comments in the public writings of the Founding Fathers than in their private letters, certainly. Perhaps they did not realize that every word they wrote would eventually become public, or perhaps they did not really care. In any event, this controversy has been discussed before, and most scholars take the body of their private writings as being more reflective of their actual feelings about religion. Also, because most of them were Deists, they could honestly talk generously about the Almighty without having any private Christian beliefs at all. Being a Christian in itself is not a badge of courage or high moral standards, anyway. If Christianity offers sinners solace and redemption, then perhaps more saintly beings do not need it. I think that is why Atheists may be of generally higher character. Bill Clinton is a staunch Christian. Need I say more?