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To: KLP who wrote (37358)9/17/2000 12:53:30 AM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 769669
 
By and large, they thought that civic virtue was necessary to the success of democracy, and that religion was buttress of civic virtue. It is true that some of them were deists, and did not believe in supernaturalism, but they had a benign view of religion as a way of inculcating virtue, and a belief in the general providence of God.