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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (18790)	12/1/2004 8:51:28 PM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"your only other option is that it was a polytheistic basis." That's funny! You're trying to say that the founding fathers were what; Hindus?? Desperation time I guess. Jefferson was no Christian but he recognized the Bible as the most sublime edifice of morality which had ever been exhibited." The Deists of the day looked to the God of the Bible as Creator and the source of human dignity and rights which all your blathering simply presupposes without rational justification. So your point "that there are as many conflicting theistic beliefs...." Is so weak that it is laughable. "In an 1815 letter to Charles Clay, Jefferson said he "had taken the four Evangelists" and "cut out from them every text they had recorded of the moral precepts of Jesus, and arranged them in a certain order, and although they appeared but as fragments, yet fragments of the most sublime edifice of morality which had ever been exhibited." "You said that the Constitution was "grounded in the God of the bible."" Actually in response to your admonition to "remember the Constitution" I said; Right! Self evident truth, grounded in the God of the bible. Message 20729627 <<<I did equate the constitution with the Declaration of Independence which is not accurate, but Buckner's point about the DOI preceding the actual Constitution bolsters, rather than refutes the foundational argument. As far as the Deism vs explicitly Christian foundations; as I said; it is a debatable point but both systems are Theistic, a point which you choose to ignore because it completely defeats your contention that America is basically an A-Theistic Republic.>>> siliconinvestor.com