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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (166826)	8/2/2001 12:05:45 AM
From: Scott Bergquist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Tom, many of the "founding fathers" were Deists, a more "naturalistic" approach to religion. They recognized that if God was truly a "super Dad" with the foilibles and emotions of humans, he couldn't really qualify as "God". Deists approached the concept of "God" as a "sum of all the natural forces." The Church of England, with the King as its head, was a political weapon whose ultimate backing was the implication that going against the Church was going against God. Washington, et al wanted nothing more to do with religiously-tainted politics. We are so much the better for it. Keep separation of religion and government!