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To: jttmab who wrote (148277)	10/20/2004 10:52:08 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I already posted the Thanksgiving Proclamation. I am not interested in whether the Founders were largely Deists or not, I am interested in whether they thought there was a kind of providence in human affairs, and that to do right was to conform to that providence, which was, in some sense, the will of God. Besides, why should Lincoln not matter? The issue, I thought, was whether it is bogus to invoke God's will or to ask His aid in doing what is right, or if it a natural way to talk if one has any residual religious beliefs. We know, in fact, that Lincoln was more or less agnostic, and yet was driven to pretty stark expressions such as I quoted.