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To: combjelly who wrote (362591)	12/13/2007 9:13:17 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586821

That the FF's expanded Locke's ideas doesn't change the fact of where they came from. do you think conservatives are advocating theocracy or something?" Some have. But, even if they haven't, one has to be suspicious when someone tries to rewrite history. People who actually advocate theocracy are dominionists. There may be a few thousand of them in the whole country. A very tiny group. As for rewriting history, its the secularists who do that. They routinely teach people the FF's were all deists or agnostics. I can cite examples from here on SI or elsewhere to show that. And that claim is bogus. The FF's were a group of over 100 people and exactly one of them is known to h/b a deist. Three of them were actual or defacto Unitarians. The vast majority were ordinary Christians. At least four were past or present ministers. And it is a fact they didn't favor abolishing mentions of religion from the public sphere. The first President chose to take his oath of office on the Bible and added "So Help Me God" to his oath. All the early Presidents issued declarations establishing days of thanksgiving or days of public fasting and prayer and they used religious language in those declarations.